The Woman I Could Have Loved <br />by Barbara Lynn Terry <br /> <br />She sat in the upper balcony <br />looking down at me, <br />She smiled her infectious smile <br />and moved in to beguile <br />me with her charms no <br />one person could resist. <br />She told me she loved me, <br />that men were all pigs, <br />and would I like to be <br />with her through eternity. <br />I told her that I liked guys, <br />she looked wounded in her eyes, <br />but I told her if I changed my <br />mind, she would be the first I <br />would bring my heart to. <br />I think I may have erred, <br />because she said that was the <br />sweetest things that anyone has <br />ever said to her in her twenty three <br />years of abusive life. <br />I told her we could be friends <br />but nothing beyond that, <br />and she said she would kill <br />herself if she couldn't have me. <br />I told her that I was whole, <br />even though I am female in my soul. <br />She said she didn't care, that when <br />she set her sights on someone she liked <br />she got who she went after. <br />I told her I was so sorry but <br />being lesbian was not for me. <br />She got up and went back to <br />her balcony, and I never saw her again, <br />but if I was so inclined, she would have been <br />the woman I could have loved.<br /><br />Barbara Lynn Terry<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-woman-i-could-have-loved/
