‘You Did Make Me Love You’

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I was twenty,

and you were nineteen

that day along the mall

 

When I heard a guitar

from deep inside

that round auditorium hall

 

Up on stage with legends

Son House, Muddy,

Johnny Winter too

 

A red haired, freckle faced,

blue eyed girl

commenced to sing the blues

 

You started with an apology

saying you were outclassed

and over matched

 

But once that voice

left your heart and flew

….in nothing did you lack

 

I followed you out

that afternoon

in the late State College Fall

 

And after fifty years of looking back

every moment

I recall

 

I walked you to the bus

as you said:

“We’re in Harrisburg tonight

 

“Why don’t you come,

it might be fun

from there I catch a flight”

 

The bus was full,

my eyes looked south

as I hitchhiked down #322

 

Fate unexplained

life forever changed

—that special gift from you

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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