You Made Me Love You Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

I was twenty,
you were nineteen,
that day along the mall

When I heard a guitar
from deep inside,
that round auditorium hall

Up on stage with legends,
Son House, Muddy,
Johnny Winter too

A red haired, freckle faced,
blue eyed girl
commenced to sing the blues

You started with an apology,
saying you were outclassed
and over matched

But once that voice
left your heart and flew
….in nothing did you lack

I followed you out
that afternoon,
in the late State College Fall

And after fifty years of looking back,
every moment
I recall

I walked you to the bus
as you said:
"We're in Harrisburg tonight

"Why don't you come,
it might be fun,
from there I catch a flight"

The bus was full,
my eyes looked south
as I hitchhiked down #322

Fate unexplained,
life forever changed
-that special gift from you

(Villanova Pennsylvania: Looking Back- March,2018)