A Silly Love Affair

While watching two sweet young lovers clad in their high school uniforms exchanging sweet nothings, I can’t help my self but to reminisce a similar experience I have gone thru. Getting my pen, I started my recollections of that cherished memories with a girl named Laila. Read on to explore what magic one “silly conversation” brings.

photo: Paula Jhin

I went to your place just to hang-out
The way I always do
Somehow, you felt I acted odd
But how? You had no clue?

Then all of a sudden, I told you a story
Of how I met this 'lovely girl'
Of how her sweetness and pretty smiles
Just gave my heart a twirl

I spoke of her beauty, her lovely voice
The way she sung so well
I said from the moment I saw her face
I fell into her spell

It killed you how I spoke of her
As if she was “the one”
Like being with her meant the world for me
Without her, life was done

You tried to be happy, keeping a straight face
But inside, it hurt a lot
The more you tried to hold it in
The more jealous you got

So on you went baffling me
Telling a web of lies
About this guy, you never met
Who “had the cutest eyes”

You told me that he asked you out
You named a place you’d go
I simply smiled and said “Okay”
Like there was something I didn’t know

The very next night, I called you up
And, Oh! To your surprise
I seemed to know that all you said
Were just a bunch of lies

I told you that there was this thing
I had to tell you too
And as you listened, you kept wondering
If what I said was true

Through your silence, I poured it out
With a voice as cold as a morning dew
I told you that my lovely girl
Was no one else but you.