FROM YOU

FROM YOU

Tabanda must be old now
remember teaching her

scariest student
ever to come to
the language college

frightening the life
out of
    all her middle aged
female teachers

me
  just knocked for
six by her beauty

her quiet
kindness, less
than innocent laughter

she must
have become quite old now
hope the war
heading her way does
not touch her

or touch you
my incidental muse
my friend
     from a
dead different planet

opposites attracting but
not where
too
   opposite

to find, keep,
a connection

I hope this war
stays far away from you

scary threat
    to all her middle aged
British