I first fell in love when I was young in grade school <br />With nature whose magic and beauty was all around <br />Like a butterfly to the flowers I was drawn <br />Oh, the joy I felt, the joy I felt, the purest I’ve ever found. <br /> <br />In high school, in my mid-teen, I fell in love <br />With a girl whose beauty could captivate all men <br />Thoughts of her filled my mind everyday, every night <br />Oh, the joy I felt, the joy I felt was heaven. <br /> <br />This love was intense, and music made it more so even <br />Love songs and music I search the radio through the nights <br />‘Till I discovered the classics, the symphonies of Beethoven <br />Oh, the joy I felt, the joy I felt was the ultimate pleasure. <br /> <br />In my late teen, after much reading, thinking; the human mind <br />The most mysterious, complex thing; I was awed and fell in love <br />I couldn’t imagine the infiniteness of its wonder and beauty <br />Oh, the joy I felt, the joy I felt must have come from above. <br /> <br />Soon all this led to my greatest love before I was twenty <br />Since then for decades, my mind, my thoughts it’s occupied <br />But where is the joy I must have reaped for loving this Humanity? <br />Why have I instead been getting pain, sorrow and bitterness?<br /><br />Leonard Sims<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-greatest-love-2/
