The last time I saw Colette

Such an unforgettable day
a sunny day with clouds from time to time
you come to me in the street
and knock me out of rhyme
in two years why did we not meet?

I should notice more
but I'm busy doing mime
for the first time in my life
having nothing to say
telling you a million words of lies
on starry nights alone along the way

need to say so much
need so much to touch
a simple holding of the hand
will make you understand
to tell you I will not forget
though I live a hundred years

your face will haunt me still and yet
i am tough too tough to care
you're just a girl with dreams of love
as if such things came down from up above
yet was it not I who gave you such ideas
while lying under stars above

before i drifted off to look for someone new
and found too late that there was none like you
today I could not speak
so I told not a single lie
and I never saw you cry
and we never said goodbye


(C james Walker001951