"first memory"

my first memory of you –

a young, naïve teen, like me –

yet I can still envision

your sparkling brown eyes

in the warm afternoon light

and after all these years

no one so far has captured

my attention and stopped

me in my tracks

A/N: Previously published on blog "Poems by Arcadia Maria" at http://poemsbyarcadiamaria.blogspot.com 10/25/16