Girl Pieces (Little Stories)
By
Nathan Caleb Camerer
A ridiculous question
gets a frightening answer
A response based on
naivety leads to a little story
A story about puppy
love
Love in the time of
postage stamps and home phones
A summer spent with a
roar in our ears and dust in our mouth
Memories engraved on
a sliver of metal
Plated in gold a
wrapped around my wrist
A little story about
a Spring storm and the evening it created
An evening of simple
pleasures
A dry change of
clothes to keep
Hide and seek with a
child who sees the world without seeing
A home cooked meal
The Lizard King
singing about people being strange
A little story about
this
A little story about
that
The girls and women
who have and come and gone
Marks and scars on
skin and psyche
Pros and cons of
lessons learned
The pieces of them I carry
with me
Tarnished, threadbare
and stained by time
Priceless,
unforgettable and vivid
Shaping how I am
today
Love me or leave me
Let me be lonely if I
can’t be your only
Not regretting and
not forgetting
You and all the ones
before you made me
So love me or leave me
I’ll tell the little
story of you to the next one
The cycle continues…
