Kentucky Poem by Kevin Carney

Do you remember Kentucky?
It was so long ago…
I know that was the time …
I fell in love with you.

We said what went on in Kentucky
would never be said…
Truly though nothing ever happened.
You… so sad, it seemed no one really cared…
The tears in your eyes…

You fought back the sobs and disappointment.
Shaking, how could they be so cruel to you?
It should have been the time for you…
Instead your spirit was so broken.

We sat and talk till almost sunrise.
I don’t know why or the when…
It was the time that we began.
The temptation to take you in my arms…

To hold you so near.
To wash away your pain
in an unconventional way…
So strange I felt…
Helpless in a way…

Wishing I might have had the answers.
Confusion….
Lost, still after all these years.
Can you give me reason to just go on?

Maybe it should be left to lost memories…
The guilt kicks in, maybe I should have tried.
So much harder to win your soul…
So afraid of tainting the innocence you had.