Friday, May 24, 2019

Heart Latin

Remembering language games from way back in my childhood,
if-say ou-yay ease-play.
I could speak Pig Latin, but I couldn’t understand it.
Challenging times demand that
I recall the ange-stray anguages-lay
that I mumbled way back in my faint-voiced childhood.
I think my words were understood
only by my friend Virigin-i-a.

We shared a secret language, but I couldn’t understand it.
Her brother Steve in the neighborhood
once oldme-tay Virginia was sweet on me.
Remembering such love felt way back in my childhood,
Steve’s words still strike me like a thunderbolt,
but Steve’s and Virginia’s amily-fay soon moved awayway.
I felt deep sadness, but I didn’t understand it.
So now I sing my elegy-Hosannas
about a love that never can xsist-xsay,
remembering language games from way back in my childhood,
trying to speak Heart Latin, but who could understand it?