She heard   him the  very first time

After a good thirty  five years or more

 She  spoke to him  only twice before

He was the guy she once fell for

At sixteen she, silly, cute but naive

There was this wave, but never was sure

She a simpleton  from the country side

Where the two grew one at a time

He was  commissioned in the navy fast

But the spell was cast  like a stamped mark

When they fleetingly spoke before he embarked

 But he was destined to cross  seven seas with time

Then as a captain felt like the Lord of the sea

Further away  he  moved and each went a different way

 Never dreamt  to hear from him this far

Yet his memory remained like a scar

Until a call she got some time ago

“It’s me” he mentioned his name

Her heart remembered, how timid it was

Never  ever spoke as such  

But now no more tender,in  its  wise old  skin,

 She soon confronted the voice

“O” said she, though sternly, I had a crush on you then

“Me too” he said firmly, without a blink of his eye in return

 Never did anticipate, he would say this way

 What surprised her more was the fluttering of her heart dum dum

 Like the young girl she was when at school she blushed 

 “Tread carefully whenever you can

‘ In matters of the heart” she thought

He wanted to know

 What  she hid in her  mind?

 Was  it a story that did not take off at all

Like a rocket messed up in its maiden flight

 Was it a story like of a shooting star

That trails off just as it sparks  very bright

He agreed to the fact

Though it was so sweet and  short

 The end came too soon at the start!

But then it left a lovely   memory

Throughout the life whatsoever

It will be  but forever so

With a life common   in their early years

Far removed from the present

This they will   savour ever