Flo

A girl with the beauty of the rose
With smiling eyes and upturned nose.
That day in Nashville town when our eyes chanced to meet
Thats when my heart fell at your feet.
Flo;Why did you have to smile so sweet?
Why didnt I just back off and beat a hasty retreat?

Love comes in many different ways
With some it go's with some it stays.
I know I am the one who should take all the blame
You fell for me and that was a shame.
I was too wild for a girl to ever tame
At eighteen love is just a game.

While I played you fell in love
And Flo I swear by God above.
I didnt mean to hurt you and ruin your life
Maybe someday you planned to be my wife
But sometimes words can cut like a knife
And fill your heart with sadness and strife.

Our times together sure went fast
I knew that they could never last.
I met your family and all your friends
I always held your hand and tried to pretend
My weaknesses you always tried to defend.
You couldn't see the coming of the end.

How I loved to hold you in my arms
And kiss your lips so soft and warm.
I can still feel your taut young girl breasts
Pressed tightly against my heaving chest
And hear your sighs from my caress.
How could a man be more blessed?

Then came the time when I had to make you cry
All too soon it was time to say goodby.
I gave you my service emblem ring
Didnt think you would even want the thing.
But you hung it around your neck with a string
Little did I know the heartaches it would bring.
When I walked away to catch that train
I knew we would never meet again.

Flo,Was a girl that was really swell
But I liked my freedom much to well
And I was too much a coward to ever tell
This lovely girl that her and I would never gel.
At first her letters came about every day
I would just read, then throw them away.

They stopped coming after about a year.
But why did I have this nagging fear?
Flo had forgot me that was clear
I really thought I should stand and cheer.
The life I was living now sure was grand
I was a victor in a vanquished land.

I had every thing a man could desire
Countless beautiful girls too admire
Anything a man would want to acquire.
Happily I sank deeper into the quagmire.
Then one day a package came
And the sender had a familar name.

The letter attached I quickly read
The few pitiful words filled my heart with dred.
This is what a grieving mother said
Dont bother to write;Flo is dead.

And the package opened held just one thing
My old service emblem ring.
Now the sobs came fast and free
And the tears so hard I couldn't see.
The girl died of a broken heart caused by me.
Allmighty God how can this be.
~Elmer Ake~