Love and Heroism

Ya gotta be
a football hero
to be in love
with a beautiful girl...
---old popular song





When superman does his
derring do and all the women
fall at his feet, it looks like
a love swoon but what is it?
Do women swoon into love?

When I was a teenager
I asked a classmate who
was getting married and saying goodbye to us
neutral friends of her youth,
was he hard? And she said no.

I am cast adrift in wondering.
I haven't forgotten how to wonder
and I wonder now at the same
questions I wondered at when I was young.
Now that I am not lonely,
I am basking in love,
how could I have found it without
being a hero?