Charmaine is twenty-one at last <br />It happened in early September <br />Yes twenty-one years have slipped away <br />Her beautiful teens I well remember. <br />'Coming of Age' just had to be <br />Teen years can't last forever. <br />My smiling bride she soon will be <br />Married to me ~ in the church on the Lea <br />In the magical month of December.<br /><br />Joyce Hemsley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/his-own-december-bride/
