The Coolest Thing

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    Written June 21, 2009

    The Coolest Thing

    The first time I had to look away.
    Shocked and scared, he silenced me.
    The first time he spoke it was music,
    The sweetest sound I had ever heard, but I
    Can’t remember a word he said.
    Confused am I to know…
    Why with all his tattoos which are more
    Than his skin is bare
    Running up his neck and down his thigh.
    And his body thinner than I’ll ever be
    Is he the coolest thing I have ever seen?
    Smooth like ice and fly like wings.
    The coolest thing I have every seen.


    My mama means the world to me, so I know
    That she would never approve
    Of the way his eyes are never open so we can see the blue
    But neither does he shut them tight to keep away the sun.
    I can hear her say, “Baby, why, with his hair blacker
    Than it’s natural hue, and his voice colder than the sea,
    Is he the coolest thing you have ever seen?”
    Mama, he’s that fresh sweet blanket that covers me:
    The coolest thing I have ever seen.


    Did you see the way he beat his chest like a tribal drum,
    Like the rhythm of my heart?
    The lyrics flow from his soul to mine unknowingly
    And people still ask me, “Why with his ascent from
    So far away and his style so slow and tiring
    Does he make you weak, so helplessly?”
    So scared, so lost. I could fall in love.
    The coolest thing I have ever seen.
    Smooth like ice and fly like wings.
    The coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

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    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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