A Guy I Never Knew Poem by Sherri Vogel

Isn't it funny when I hardly knew you how easy words just came
Never knew the person just the face and name
Poems and songs I wrote about you for so long
How could my opinion of you have been so wrong.
To me you had no flaws were perfect as could be
Your attractive looks was what inspired me.
'Cause I could sit and write for hours about the guy I thought I knew
Funny how things changed after running into you.
Finally getting to know the man behind the face
Made that inspiration somehow just erase.
I guess nobody's perfect and I placed you way too high
Up upon a pedestal what a fool was I.
With good looks on the outside you lacked so much within
And writing now about you where do I begin.
It only took a moment it only took a night
For me to open up my eyes and finally see the light.
Maybe I am lucky we met up in the bar
And you explained about yourself that night in the car.
'Cause the guy I thought I wrote about the guy I thought I missed
Who I met back in high school never did exist.
A figment of my imagination inspired me to write
About a person who I thought could bring me such delight.
But that was just impossible our meeting wasn't fate
I found that out in June one night in a parking lot real late.
Weird how first impressions somehow make you start
Having thoughts and feelings about someone in your heart.
Never really knowing what that person's all about
Until one night by chance you finally figure out.
I guess thats what happened when I looked into your eyes
And said goodbye the last time I began to realize
That my heart and mind created someone out of you
Who in the end turned out to be just
'A Guy I Never Knew.'