18 2017 dinner date (prompt table for two)<\/p>\n
Dinner Date
\nby Paul Robert Sanford<\/p>\n
At a table for two
\nwe sat and smiled
\nas couples do on a date
\nearly in a relationship.<\/p>\n
That night marked the demarcation between my life before and since.<\/p>\n
She flashed her radiant smile,
\nher delicate perfect features
\nframed with angelic curls.
\nA crystal on a chain around her neck,
\nher peasant blouse showing off her good shoulders.<\/p>\n
From that night came a new career, parenthood, stability, and sadness.<\/p>\n
I was in a brilliant, happy phase,
\nfull of vitality and creativity
\nfairly wise and not too arrogant.
\nStill with hair framing my rugged features,
\ncontact lenses letting my soft eyes show.<\/p>\n
The biological clock was ticking for both of us, and this was my callback audition
\nfor sperm donor, parent, life mate.<\/p>\n
I never believed this spectacular creature
\ncould really want humongous bumbling me,
\nand I drove her crazy with my insecurity,
\nbut eventually she convinced me she loved me.
\nI adored her so much I was afraid to show it,
\nhiding behind a bit of gruffness from time to time.<\/p>\n
That night was the beginning of two wonderful children, ten eventful years together,
\nthe golden time that divided my long youth from my elderly disabled days.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t remember anything that happened that night
\nat that table for two,
\njust an indelible picture of two people falling in love
\njoining their lives
\nblessed by the soft lights of a nice restaurant
\non a momentous dinner date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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