The Girl On The Boardwalk Poem by Panagiota Romios

     The Girl on the Boardwalk

     Atlantic City, New Jersey

     Walking on the Boardwalk
     on a hot, steamy summer day. 
     In a two piece rose bathing
     suit, twas decades ago!

     I was only seven and seeing the        
   Atlantic, for the very first time.
   I loved the waves, oh!
     I bought a dear bracelet that I
   still own.
   With silver circular disks and
   sailboats in each glistening so!
   
   The salt water taffy was like
     manna from heaven.
   To this French-braided young 
   girl, only of seven.

   Nobody dressed as oddballs or
   freaks I see today!
   Not one person, a walking  
   crayon or displaying a shirt with
   with hate.
   Kindness, good manners,  
   respect were forever in play 


   So forgive me, if I truly don't   
   understand this God hating,
     negative, lost world.
   My mind hungers for the sanity,
   the love, the humanity and the     
   lost sweetness.
   Of a salt water taffy world.

     

      June 30,2019