We were only children
12 years if a day
We held hands by the river
And watched your brother play
We made believe as grownups
And you called me your wife
Someday we'd have it all, we said
Our own enchanted life

I loved you with a fervor
The way that children do
Those around made no fun
They knew you loved me too
Inseparable tho we were
The best laid plans, they say
Your father told me harshly
That you would move away

The months and years passed quickly
And never did I know
When there would be a letter
From Sandy, Idaho
My hands would always tremble
My tears would always stain
And though I had grown older
That childhood love remained

You told me of your life there
A world I didn't know
And every time you promised
That you would soon come home
Sometimes you'd send a picture
I scarcely recognized
But there, beneath the new face
Were my young sweetheart's eyes

Time passed by so fleeting
I missed your letters so
I still loved my sweetheart
In Sandy, Idaho
One day I saw your father
And asked him about you
A silent shot ran through him
"Oh, God, I thought you knew..."

He said that you'd been drinking
And that you lost control
He said you didn't suffer
But how was he to know
I scoured all the papers
But not a word of you
Just a troubled throwaway
That didn't make the news

I felt that pain that I felt
The day that you had gone
When I was just a child
How could it be so long?
You never came back to me
But in my heart I know
There was a boy who loved me
In Sandy, Idaho

(This is a true story. I can't believe the swell of emotion that brought up. I have never written of him before. I miss you still, K.B. )