Beautiful, Unpredictable

I watched the smile spread across your face,
light dancing in your eyes as you told me you had
found someone to love.
Minutes, hours, days spent together
on that sizzling blacktop, basking in the sun.
Epic Romance. Great happenstance.
And as the leaves fell off the trees,
I watched you change into a woman
I had never seen.
So sure of yourself, so outspoken,
proclaiming love on every doorstep.
You looked so content.
I smile and reminisce with you about older days
spent talking, playing, imagining what our now
would look like, then.
You are beautiful, unpredictable,
a wild one somewhere between children and women,
finding your way, drawing your own map.