The Woman I Could Have Loved
by Barbara Lynn Terry
She sat in the upper balcony
looking down at me,
She smiled her infectious smile
and moved in to beguile
me with her charms no
one person could resist.
She told me she loved me,
that men were all pigs,
and would I like to be
with her through eternity.
I told her that I liked guys,
she looked wounded in her eyes,
but I told her if I changed my
mind, she would be the first I
would bring my heart to.
I think I may have erred,
because she said that was the
sweetest things that anyone has
ever said to her in her twenty three
years of abusive life.
I told her we could be friends
but nothing beyond that,
and she said she would kill
herself if she couldn't have me.
I told her that I was whole,
even though I am female in my soul.
She said she didn't care, that when
she set her sights on someone she liked
she got who she went after.
I told her I was so sorry but
being lesbian was not for me.
She got up and went back to
her balcony, and I never saw her again,
but if I was so inclined, she would have been
the woman I could have loved.
Barbara Lynn Terry
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