Star Crossed Love

A half century ago

Star crossed lovers

Came together in cornfields

And on back roads

In small town America

Our love a rampage of desire

Too strong to be held

Too fragile to last beyond the summer’s rain

Too young and yet too old

A lover’s paradox

Dark moon filled nights

Across a field of green prairie grass

And ripening stalks of yellow corn

The summer’s rain has long ago passed

The words spoken aloud across the sea

Of corn stalks and tall grass

Now lie silent against the north wind

Fertile fields no more

I call your name aloud

Across a sea of time

I whisper it to a moonlit night

Young no more

My love can be contained

It will last far beyond the summer’s rain