Young Love

By Rosemary Clarke

Your minds are filled with hopes and dreams
All those ideas, all those schemes
Ignorance thwarts you if it can
Be you woman or be you man.

Don't believe the others tales
If you do you're bound to fail.
Not the colour, age or sex
Don't let your friendship be next!

In each other have belief
All your feelings underneath
To your own selves be so true
Look to the future both of you.

Always have each other's backs
Whatever way you take your track.
Learn about each other's ways
That way you'll have happy days.

Give each other space and care
All of the time and anywhere.
Keep each other safe and sure
That way your love will not be poor.

Keep the friends who give you wealth
Of friendship's eternal health.
Together you can beat the rest
This is true love's deepest test.

Listen to your own heart's beat
Not the voices in the street
Nor the doubts inside your head
Put there by folks who fear and dread.

In deepest anger take a while.
Remember all your warmest smiles.
Keep your own hearts open wide
Then through the many years, you'll find
You understand each other's minds.

You have a lifetime to discover
If you are mates, or friends or lovers
Perhaps a blessed mix of all
Is what you'll get when love will call.

Copyright Rosemary Clarke