girls divided by girls

girls divided by girls i fell in love with girls adorned with freckles that crossed the bridge of their noses like the dabbled spots  you see on a newborn fawn frozen in fear and lying so very still in the woods girls with the same camouflage draped across their cheeks and even some  with a gentle splash of pepper running across  and down  their soft tummies but those girls if i remember correctly did not lay still i fell in love with girls who wore bleached blond hair piled high  and held in place with scented hairspray like a crown on their heads girls with baby-blue  eyeshadow smeared slightly from the flutter of their lashes with skin draped in peach fuzz and with the whitest smiles that beckoned for attention and mistook every passing desire for love i fell in love  with girls in denim dresses who smoked rolled cigarettes and on occasion let a swear word slip through their chapped lips girls who hated  rules and expectations and who traveled across the country with nothing more than a small backpack and a thin sleeping bag who ran from day's end and only rested late at night in the crook  of my arms i fell in love with girls who wrote pretty words in beaten black journals and with a turn of a phrase and a mixed metaphor condemned the world that they were sure had spit them out girls with a conscience but who could never decide right from wrong and instead searched  for the ambiguity of some dreamy universal love even though they did not know or allow themselves to feel the passion of love at all i fell in love with girls who gave me joy and girls who left me heartbroken girls who offered careful promises and girls who offered only recklessness girls with stars in their eyes and girls who hid behind an endless pain girls disguised in the colourful costumes of a childlike fantasy and girls who stepped from empty shadows to embrace enlightenment  younger girls and older girls quiet girls and loud girls dull girls and bright girls girls breathless with longing and girls moaning with pleasure and through it all i never found the love never ever caught the heart  of you the mystery of my life the one and only girl  who slipped like the wind past the hopeful reach of my dreams and vanished  with the best of her spirit gone forever from the best of mine Copyright © Kennedy James, 2015. All rights reserved.