initials written on a dock

Garrett Frederick Brooks and Denise Heather Brooks.

They were carved on a dock

by the lake in Traverse City.

They meet there three years

before they carved their names.

They were young and it was summer.

The sun shined down on them

as they tripped over words and wondered what to say.

Their story would involved

many trips to see each other,

back and forth - back and forth

they'd go.

Till finally the day would come,

when he'd ask her to marry him

and she'd say yes.

They would only return

to this dock three years later.

To carve their names on the dock,

where they meet.

To remember their past and make others wonder

about those six letters

carved on the dock.