Only A Boy

Posted by Rollie NE PA on February 18, 2016 at 10:31:25 from (108.57.55.228):

Only A Boy
I remembered the first time I tried it
I was only a kid of fifteen
And even tho she was much younger than I
she was far more composed and serene
I was eager yet awkwardly backward
uncertain of how to proceed
But she seemed now to notice the hesitance
with which I prepared to the deed
It was out in the barn I remember
at the close of a bright summer day
And the evening was accented with clover in bloom
and the fragrance of freshly mown hay
I remember she made no objections
showed no evidence of alarm
For I loved her and she loved me
since she came to live on the farm
I remember I spoke to her softly
and cuddled her face in my hands
And I saw in the depth of wide eyes to look
of a loved one who understands
Looking back on it now I remember
how I stood while my head to spin
with the thought of the thing I was going to do
yet reluctant somehow to begin
And her eyes seemed I thought to rebuke me
for waiting – for being afraid
And even Nellie, out ancient plow horse
looked over her manger and weighed
Long later I stood up uncertain
of whether to stay or to run
A tingle with pride and yet shaken and awed
as I knew that at last it was done
I remember it seemed hours later
how my heart hammered under my blouse
with the joy of a boy that turned into a man
as I made my way back to the house
Twenty years have gone since that evening
but I’ve never forgotten it now
The thrill and joy that I felt as a boy
on the day when I first milked a cow

Author Unknown

I found this in some old documents I was going thru. The word blouse is used where it would seem that shirt should have been used. I think this was probably written when men did in fact where a blouse.

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