Letter to a Marine

Some may say
A crush will pass
Or love at first sight
Does not exist

But I'd like to protest
Otherwise
For my heart has fallen
For a marine

And I realize
My love runs
Deep within me

In the spring
Of 2008
I met a guy
I'd never seen

Until that time
I didn't think
That falling in love
Would happen for me

But my heart has
Moved another way
In love it fell
With someone I can't see

Far away he went from me
To serve our country as a marine
Nowhere to write or send this
But I'll write it and hope he sees it

So I write
On paper in ink
All the words you read
Making you think

I'm in love with a marine
And my heart is breaking at the seams