It Could Have Been Me

She was my
High school
Heart throb,
A radiantly joyful,
Auburn haired, beauty,
And I fanaticized
About the two of us
Getting together
From almost two years
Without ever
Mustering the courage
To approach her.
About three years later,
I ran into her
At a local supermarket,
And she already had
Three kids and a fourth
On the way.
There I was,
Just having finished
My junior year
At the university,
And barely able
To support myself financially,
Dumbfounded by
The way my life
Might have turned out
Had I not
Previously been
So romantically incompetent.