Eyes So Blue

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I once loved a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde girl who lived on an Indian reservation in Arizona. I almost won her heart, but she had been deeply in love with my indifferent brother, who is about fifteen years older than I am. She would, understandably, not allow herself to marry into the family - because my brother would always be there, a reminder of her disappointment. It was the last thing I'd expected - to be competing with my brother: When we met, I was twenty-one. She was nineteen. He was thirty-six, seventeen years her senior!

Ten years passed, with her turning away many suitors, still waiting on my brother - who never was interested to begin with, and, in fact, never married at all.

I remained single for another eleven years, proposing to her ten years after our first meeting. She teetered upon acceptance, but alas...

I feel that we were both cheated of happy years by this sad triangle, but I don't lay blame upon her.

Finally, her world crumbled. Her mentor died, and, love-starved, she turned her back upon all her friends, abandoned her values, and moved far away. The last I heard, she had married, and was living in the Midwest...

I hope he's a good man.