"it's a crumbling sunshine shame"

"it's a crumbling sunshine shame"
for a gentleman friend who isn't yet
~L. Page

it's a crumbling sunshine shame
framed still in summer glow
although 'tis but the remnant of July
you try to understand

grand posturing as may be
maybe you've been waiting now
sing how you used to for your supper
superstar that you never were

forever where your wishes fell
welcome to the fall memory
summery sigh has crossed the line
in time to take your heart in hand

win's grand stand has you in tow
into meltdown where your mind
for blindness' sake deceived
believing it won't matter

that their gazes shun the older one
for once has desired the better
fettered to a dream of lovers in
saving one's heart, although

all told she can't believe he would.

(c) 2008 Leah Randelle


[same "form" as "first date blind" - my favorite "obstruction" in writing poetry, rhyming/parallel the first "sounds" of a line with the end "sounds" of its predecessor]