We were always together <br />as much as weather <br /> <br />was <br />weather. <br /> <br />'Like two peas <br />in a pod...by God! ' <br /> <br />as the man said <br />when he saw us <br /> <br />& laughed <br />his head off. <br /> <br />We only smiled <br />with little Mona Lisa smiles <br /> <br />seeing no one <br />but each other <br /> <br />holding hands <br />& jumping through <br /> <br />a rain washed <br />hopscotch <br /> <br />our breaths <br />mingling in the frosty air <br /> <br /> <br />the words <br />I LOVE YOU <br /> <br />held there <br />for ever for all <br /> <br />to see <br />our first big love <br /> <br />& neither of us <br />not yet <br /> <br />9.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/little-mona-lisa-smiles-for-ruthie/
