I turned up my collar as a "Message to the Wind" that its "Cold Hands From New York" could not touch me on this happy day. And as I strolled down "Yonge Street", "Looking at the Rain", I happened to glance "In a Windowpane" of a little cafe and I just had to stop and to admire "All the Lovely Ladies" inside having their "Second Cup of Coffee" after lunch.
As I watched, one of them got up to leave. She smiled and said goodbye to her friends, paid her check and started out the door. As I stood aside to "Make Way For the Lady", I heard someone softly "Whisper My Name" and ("Forgive Me, Lord"), all thoughts of Bonnie were chased from my mind at that moment when I looked up to see Annabelle standing before me.
Although our relationship had only been a "Now and Then" type of thing, Annabelle and I had shared "That Same Old Obsession" for a brief, but happy time. Annabelle was now happily settled and the "Mother of a Miner's Child" although you'd never know it to look at her today.
"Hey, You!" I said in delight. "Baby, Step Back" and let me have a good look at you!" "If I Could", I would have hugged her on the spot, but visions of Bonnie and her own "Unsettled Ways" passed through my mind.
"Hi, there," said Annabelle quietly. "If it isn't my "Same Old Loverman". How have you been?"
"Well," I replied with a grin, "Same "Go Go Round". I shrugged. But "I've Gotta Lot More Livin' to Do". How about you? How's your husband and your daughter?"
Her eyes grew sad. "Well, "Poor Little Allison" ... well ... "She's Not the Same"... you know? Ever since she spent the night in that "Hangdog Hotel Room" which she now regrets deeply, she just keeps hanging out at "Cherokee Bend", trying to "Stay Loose." But I guess she's learned her "Lesson in Love". I keep telling her to just "Let it Ride", but, well, you know teenagers. Even "Uncle Toad Said" she should put on her "Red Velvet" and get out and find herself an "Ordinary Man." She shrugged. "He was "Stone Cold Sober" that night, too," she added with a twinkle in her eye.
I nodded. "Well, maybe she just needs "Someone to Believe In". She'll find the right "Romance" one day."
Annabelle laughed shortly. "Yeah. That sounds like you. ... "Always on the Bright Side", aren't you?"
I glanced up at the leaden sky which was already "Approaching Lavender" and I knew that it was "A Long Way Back Home" and I'd better get a move on if I was going to beat the storm and catch my plane to Alberta and Bonnie. I realized that this old relationship was lost in "Cobwebs and Dust" and it would never again be our "Affair on Eighth Avenue" that it had been. Too many "Changes" had taken place. "I'm Not Sayin'" that they are bad memories, but "The Last Time I Saw Her", she was happy just "For Lovin' Me" and since that "Black Day in July" when we reached the "Crossroads" of our relationship, we sort of both become "Drifters" "On the High Seas" of love.
So, with an "Apology" for having to run and a brief explanation of why, I said "Farewell to Annabelle" and hurried off to my apartment to don my "Saturday Clothes" and catch that "Alberta Bound" plane to take me to Bonnie.
Stay loose, eh?
LAMS
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"Love and maple syrup
go together like the
sticky winds of winter
when they meet....
If you go into the forest
Gaze up through the trees
The sky is white.
You can understand
What makes the forest
Greet the man
Like a mother's only
child ..."
[This message has been edited by loveandmaplesyrup (edited February 27, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by loveandmaplesyrup (edited February 27, 2000).]
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