I once loved a woman, a child I am told

I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.

My children and I were at her bedside as she slipped peacefully into eternity. As I held her hand and saw mortal life drain from her fingers, I confess I was overcome. Before I married her, she had been the girl of my dreams, to use the words of a song then popular. She was my dear companion for more than two-thirds of a century, my equal before the Lord, really my superior. And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.

I’d been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me.

I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

With me you could have been another person.

She was my darling: difficult, morose -
But still my darling.

A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of

You were a precious pearl How I loved to see you shine, You were the perfect girl. And you were mine. For a time. For a time. Just for a time.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it.
'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that.

It was a good place for a girl to work at that time.