I've written this poem and it is the happiest I've been since I started writing.

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So Young, So New.

I met you whilst working the reception at church
This is a memory I don’t wish to besmirch.
Happily surfing the waves of the web,
In you walked, right into my head.

Sailed into my heart like Napoleon’s fleet,
Set it a racing like a Keith Moon drum-beat.
With no panache I find out your name
Armed only with chat-up lines that are utterly lame.

I talk about theatre and the shows that I’ve seen
The perfect man, it must seem like a dream.
Sat at the bar, later that night
I try to decipher what it is that’s in sight.
You’re a whirlwind of smiles and longest brown hair
My old heart had better beware.
I plagiarise movies you’ve not seen, just for something to say
To paint you a picture, to present a bouquet
Love’s on its way, it’s no time to play…
and you make me feel so young, so new.

So what do I do with this swell in my chest?
I lay it at your feet
I’m your Norman conquest.
You’ve invaded my land, the white flag is raised
I’ve done it willingly
The lord’s to be praised!

I’m in love for the first time and I don’t feel bad,
These are the strangest feelings that I’ve ever had.
I was conceived for your smile
Your happiness my breath
An end to either could mean only my death

The horizon’s before us and no way to know
How this act will unfurl and flow.
The stage is set, the transmission is live
I hear the music to “here comes the bride”.

Now this man has more than his far share of faults,
Like Frankenstein’s monster, with the nuts and the bolts.
But there is also a heart that aches only for you,
Like an open book,
Transparent,
See-through.
For you make me feel so young, so new.

Give romance
A chance
You don’t have to make-do
Let’s make you feel
So young
So new