The First Time

Your eyes so innocent

So full of love

Just searching

So trusting

Your little hand

Gripping so tightly

Tugging my heart-strings


Many years later…

Remembering the love as new

A love ever so true

A smile to my lips

A flutter to my heart

A tear to my eye

A lump in my throat


The love overwhelming

The joy overflowing

The feelings

That feeling

This feeling


Never to be forgotten

Never to be denied…