THE MAN WITH LAUGHING EYES

Writers' Pantry #37, and Megaly asks us to consider autumn.

I've many happy autumn memories and some that are rather 

sad and nostalgic, and this is one of those. Forgive the format.

 Blogger's "new and improved format"is confounding

 me at present.

 Submitted to Poets & Storytellers United 

September 14, 2020 

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 I once knew a man with laughing eyes

Who caused my heart to dance

Who made me believe in love again

And, trusting, I took a chance.

I loved the man with laughing eyes

And, ah, love was so sweet

I believed no challenge could be so great

That together we could not meet.

Sometimes we loved by firelight

And sometimes we loved by day

Then one day the man with laughing eyes

Seemed to have gone away.

I said to the man with laughing eyes

“It seems you’ve built a wall

I’ve tried to scale it, but I cannot

It’s really much too tall.”

And so went the man with laughing eyes

Away from my life for good

I guess I knew it could never last

But oh, how I wished it would.

For a moment we had it, my laughing eyes

But alas it was just for a day

And quickly as snowflakes can disappear

Our bright tomorrows slipped away..