I was a lad of ten <br />And I was in love with a girl of six, <br />She lived beyond the farms and ponds <br />Beyond meadows and heather fields. <br />Her eyes were the sparkling bluebells <br />In her golden tresses <br /> She wore ribbons of green <br />She was sweet, blessed and kind <br />I was stringy and mean <br />Every day I went to pond <br />To see her there alone <br />Sometimes her father caught the fishes <br />And she would wrinkle her dainty nose. <br />I was a lad of ten <br />And I was in love with a girl of six <br />I tried to tell her this <br />In any way there could be <br />One day rain and thunder came <br />They swept on our beautiful land <br />I couldn’t go to my special place <br />And nothing was ever the same <br />When the drops stopped to fall <br />And when the thunder died <br />I rushed out of the house <br />To be on her side <br />But when I neared my secret place <br />Tears blurred my vision <br />It seemed rain had taken away <br />The only thing of my obsession <br />The news came later that day <br />When I was sitting idle <br />My sister pulled me aside <br />And told me the girl was dead <br />I was a lad of ten <br />In love with a girl of six <br />And she died in that rain <br />It was a problem that couldn’t be fixed.<br /><br />Lucifera Santez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lad-of-ten/
