Strange Attraction

It started with a dedication

Lost in admiration, happy birthday

I'm forever yours, Blossom

Faded red inside

A tiny book of butterflies

I smiled, surprised at how when flickered through

The wings flew by spelled out my name

Six months went by, the summer lost

Obsessively the letters dropped into my life

The same soft blood smooth flowing hand

Please try to understand

I have to see you, have to feel you

Tell you all the ways I need you

Yours forever in love

Strange attraction spreads its wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads its wings

And alter but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade

The year grew old, incessantly

She wrote to me, she started smoking poetry

I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase

She pulled me in, I answered her

A Christmas card in sepia

Arranging when and where

And how the two of us should meet

Her opening so well prepared

Another smile, I couldn't take my eyes from her, she whispered

"Can I use some of your lipstick"

It was perfect, so believable

I couldn't help but feel that it was real

Kissing crimson, fell into her waiting arms

Strange attraction spreads its wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads its wings

And alters but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade

So alone into the cold new year

Without another word from her

I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring

But weeks went by with no reply

Until once more my birthday came

And with it my surprise

But this time  nothing was the same

I'm sorry, blame infatuation

Blame imagination

I was sure you'd be the one, but I was wrong

It seems reality destroys our dreams

I won't forget you, Blossom

Faded red inside

A tiny book of old goodbyes

Strange attraction spreads its wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads its wings

And alters but the smallest things

And you never know

And you never know

And you never know