A Boy And A Girl

summer
in 1970, a boy

takes of its cap
and puts it on

the head of the
girl

to protect her
hair from the sun

and that was
how it started

the rest he keeps
inside his aching

heart, the other half
of the pain

she keeps
forever.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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