Invisible Strings - 53. "1993" by Katie Manning

"1993" by Katie Manning

If I go with my gut from the get-go, I'm calling this one "Mary's Song." The poem starts with this line:

You were ten when you first saw

the boy you'd marry from across

the room

Which sounds a lot like the beginning of the song:

She said, I was seven and you were nine

I looked at you like the stars that shine

In the sky, the pretty lights

And our daddies used to joke about the two of us

Growing up and falling in love and our mamas smiled

And rolled their eyes and said, "Oh my, my, my"

I'm such a sucker for all of this. The poem is such a sweet tribute to a long-lasting love, which you find out at the end has lasted for more than twenty years. The song has always been one of my favorite mushy Taylor love songs about a young love that lasts. And I not-so-secretly love the invisible string of the line "I'll be 87, you'll be 89" that she wrote when she was 16, and she is now in a relationship with KC Chief Travis Kelce, whose number is 87, and she, of course was born in 1989 and named an album after the year.