I still don’t drink beer until afternoon

mom said not to drink beer until after the noon hour or I would be an alcoholic     unless I am on a vacation — then mom said it’s okay to have morning drinks on trips   later in life a friend asked me to go to a few AA meetings     i asked the group

Connie, remember falling in love?

where ever you are     do you remember we loved one summer at cocoa beach?

i did not know what to say

shyness is crazy it didn’t do me any good all those years of being afraid of rejection     in fact when i was lucky enough to walk with a girl in high school     i didn’t know if i should hold her hand     when i didn’t which was almost always i

i was too shy to ask you to be my friend

i was afraid you would laugh or walk away if i asked to be your friend   those were the days before texting on a cell or going on facebook and asking to be a friend     back then i missed chances to to fall in love or just have a friend because i