It started with a dedication'lost in admiration - happy birthday - I'm forever yours - blossom'Faded red inside a tin
y book of butterfliesI smiled surprised at how when flickered throughThe wings flew by spelled out my name...Six months wen
t by the summer lostObsessively the letters dropped into my lifeThe same soft blood smooth flowing hand'please try to unders
tand - I have to see you - have to feel you -Tell you all the ways I need you - yours forever in love... 'Strange attraction
spreads it's wingsIt varies but the smallest thingsYou never know how anything will changeStrange attraction spreads it's w
ingsAnd alters but the smallest thingsYou never know how anything will fadeThe year grew old incessantly she wrote to meSh
e'd started smoking poetry!I laughed in recognition of a favourite phraseShe'd pulled me in...I answered herA christmas car
d in sepiaArranging when and whereAnd how the two of us should meet...Her opening so well preparedA nervous smileI couldn
't take my eyes from herShe whispered'can I use some of your lipstick?'It was perfect so believableI couldn't help but feel
that it was realAnd kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms...Strange attraction spreads it's wingsIt varies but the sm
allest thingsYou never know how anything will changeStrange attraction spreads it's wingsAnd alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fadeSo alone into the cold new year without another word from herI wrote to ask if we could
maybe meet again before the springBut weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday cameAnd with it m