Poolside Dreams


     A quasi-sonnet...

How lovely you look, lying by pool.
     Others stare at you also, don't they?
     They daydream about you, they pray
For you to subject them to your ridicule.
I try so very hard to keep my cool.
     I try to think of something great to say.
     But then you stand up and walk away,
Leaving me feeling like a fool.

My imagination struck again:
     Where is my sense of reality?
          Someone like me has no chance
With you. That I even begin
     To think it is such vanity.
          You'd not even give me a glance.