WE STARTED – SLOW LAZY LOVE – Edna Starbuck

WE  STARTED
 
 
We started in the rumble seat of your friend's car.
On a hot August night
When you were twenty and I was nineteen.
We had not tested life or traveled the hard road.
I didn't know about you and you didn't know about me
When fate stepped in and decided our destiny.
 
The sign of our time were young people of our age.
Starting out to restore what a war had taken
and destroyed.
 
We were young with passion in our eyes
And small change in our pockets.
We hadn't heard of charge cards
Or jet planes or mortgages or split-level
homes.
 
We were in love, life was all new
And we were just beginning.
 
 
 
Edna Katharine Meinert–Starbuck
July 12, 1990



 
SLOW LAZY LOVE
 
 
I like that long slow lazy love
We once had.
It lay there just under the surface.
It was in your eyes when you came in the door,
Or across a room filled with people.
On the drive home from a movie
When you would touch my face
With your fingertips.
That long slow lazy love
It grows because we have been together.

— Edna Katharine Meinert–Starbuck

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