Standing on a corner

Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona I saw you standing there like a Greek God. The wind was blowing through your auburn hair, your ivory skin was sprinkled with golden flecks and your eyes were pale blue. I stood there staring at you from afar with my mouth wide open. I was mesmerized by your modelesque looks and for me it was love at first sight. As you stood there talking to the lucky ones around you I wanted to know your name and where you were from. I wanted to know every single thing about you. I was about to politely interrupt you and your tribe. But my juicy mouth wouldn’t open. Instead I was as frozen as a Dairy Queen twist. And my ruby red lips shivered. Everyone around me wore Bermuda shorts, tanks tops, and Bahama style shirts. Yet I could do nothing more than chatter my porcelain capped teeth together as I shivered in response to my nerves, making my body and mind, cold and numb. My slinky yellow sundress felt like ice against my damp skin. I tried to inch forward towards you but felt as if I was caught in quick sand. I took one step in your direction in my blue suede Manolo stilettos but tripped on a deep crack on the hot Arizona asphalt. You had your back turned away from me and thank God not one person saw my disastrous fall. I did it as classy as possible just in case someone did actually see me. My mom had always taught me to fall with dignity and to do it it proud. I managed to pull it off as elegantly as possible. But the blood oozing out of my left knee hurt with immense pain. And I felt faint and wobbled back towards my previous destination with a bruised ego and crimson cheeks. I wished you had actually seen me and then you might have come to my rescue like a knight in shining armour. But you didn’t. And for the rest of my entire life I’ve been left with an etched memory of your chiseled jaw line, poetic blue eyes and statuesque stance. Your face is forever a memory lapsed into a scar on my knee and a prisoner in my brain and my lonely heart. You will always be the one that was so close yet so far away. And I will never know your name.