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Love at Eight!.

I fell in love with a girl once,
So I hung by my knees from a tree,
And told her incredible stories,
All terrible lies about me!.

I said I could run like a leopard,
I told her I'd once seen a shark;
I said I could throw a stone miles,
And was never afraid of the dark!.

I boasted my Dad was a pirate,
I whispered that I was a spy;
I said that I'd been on the telly,
And could name every star in the sky!.

I claimed I played football for England,
I said that the scabs on my knee
had been won in a fight with Butch Mason -
A boy three times bigger than me!.

I recited a poem I'd 'borrowed',
I said I could stand on my head;
I told her I'd been in a rocket,
And I owned a gorilla called Fred!.

I walked on the sky in my sandals,
My face framed in blue filled her eyes,
As she gazed up at me from the tree-roots,
Awash in the warmth of my lies!.

It was such a wonderful evening,
My stories her silence, the tree -
But I knew that I'd lost her forever,
When her mum drove her home for her tea!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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