Girl of Fifteen + 

Girl of fifteen, + 

I see you each morning from my window + 

As you pass on your way to school. + 

I do more than see, I watch you. + 

I furtively draw the curtain aside. + 

And my heart leaps through my eyes + 

And follows you down the street; + 

Leaving me behind, half-hid + 

And wholly ashamed. + 

What holds me back, + 

Half-hid behind the curtains and wholly ashamed, + 

But my forty years beyond your fifteen? + 

Girl of fifteen, as you pass + 

There passes, too, a lightning flash of time + 

In which you lift those forty summers off my head, + 

And take those forty winters out of my heart. + 