Dear My Favorite Miss
Failure has taught me this:
Nothing else matters,
That if I could have a wish,
I would binge watch Netflix
Curled up with my Favorite Miss
That needs to remain nameless.
I don’t care what we watch,
Who acts the role,
What they look like,
Or how many episodes.
They’d just be a good excuse,
For me to truly love you;
Feeling your body parallel to mine,
Our heartbeats keeping
Yet suspending time.
Failure has taught me this:
Nothing else matters,
That what’s important are the little things,
Your body heat caressing mine,
Your face encouraging your shy
but most beautiful smile;
All is forgotten, even time.
Nothing else matters,
When I see that smile,
As if you’ve been
sent straight from heaven;
What we do; who we are,
What is wrong or what is right in this world;
The pain life brings is forgotten,
A lifetime of worries,
All gone in a split-second.
So, my failures have taught me this:
Nothing else matters,
When I look at your face,
I have no doubt in heaven’s grace
Because in celebrating you,
I wish for all others this truth:
To find one that loves you
With all their heart,
With all their soul,
With all their might.
When that “perfect” girl smiles at you,
Nothing else matters but being true.
And that’s my excuse to binge watch Netflix
Curled up with my Favorite Miss … you!
Earl Yarington (LMSW) is a social worker and school bus driver. He taught literature and writing for nearly 20 years and spent 3 years working in forensic social work internships with offending populations, including work at Delaware Correctional facilities and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has a PhD in literature and criticism (feminism/women writers) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University, and an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Arts from Arizona State University, where he studied the impact of visual image and girlhood in media/social media. He also has an MA and BS in English from SUNY College at Brockport. The opinions and analyses that Earl writes are his own and are not necessarily the positions or views of his employers, the agencies he supports, or that of his colleagues. Reach out with comments or questions.