"Can't you read the signs!"

I began touching paths, "reunited and it felt so good," but the person told me that she was embarking upon a new stage of her life, the first year of college and she did not want to commit. But she said some day but not now.

I was dejected, but yet optimistic taking her words literally. That was the end of the summer, and I too was entering a new year, a new dormitory, and embarking upon the next phase of my education.

As time went by during the course of the semester, studies aside, my feelings intensified. As is often the case with me and especially with this relationship, it was one-sided in that the feelings were "my imagination running away with me."

Although it was one-sided, for the most part, there were frequent gestures and signs pointing in my favor. "Signs say, long haired, freaky people need not apply."
Now, years later it is absolute after a 180° turn in my life. It is so clear and the signs are so obvious. I chalk it up to  my inexperience and also naïve wishful thinking.

One for the road, "these are salad days."

Jimmy