I Really Did Like You Susan Fewster Poem by Ray Moody

I really did like you Susan Fewster.
Even when I said, 'Well I don't like her! '
When you were absent from school that day
And your classmates made me aware
When they told me that you liked me and I blurted out,
'Well I don't like her! '
Please forgive me, I was childish,
I was shy and I really, really did care

My mouth may have blurted out those words,
But my heart said something else,
I was just embarrassed, young and stupid,
And I thought that's what boys were supposed to say

But I really did like you Susan Fewster
You were the modernist girl in 3B
And I was shocked and maybe a little amazed that day
When your friends said that you actually liked me
Because there were so many other boys in the class
Good looking and full of swagger
And I sadly regret that day when I plunged teenage loves young dagger

And your 'friends' just couldn't wait to tell you
Those hurtful words I said
Each word hammering the anvil
And left a-ringing in my head
And after that day you tried to show,
Your dislike for me
But just before you left the school I had one last opportunity
To say the words, to put things right, but I just sat there silently,
Childishly believing that you might actually show some pity for me

And it's haunted me through the years as
I've thought about
Those cruel words I said
At such a tender age, killing love stone dead
So finally, here are the words that I truly always wanted to say,
That I really did like you Susan Fewster
You were the modernist girl in 3B
You were pretty, you were lovely
And I'm glad that you once had a moment, for me.