Love at First Sight posted 1/3/2008 11:11:54 AM | 4 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: infatuation, romance, love, poetry

wordsenchanting

Have you ever looked at a profile that just jumped out at you? In spite of some desire to read and know EVERYTHING about someone before allowing one's self to FEEL anything, here is a profile with so very few words, yet you feel you already know that person? Maybe this is the very definition of soulmates?

The last date I was on was two years ago. I met a gal and went to dinner. In the first instant when I looked at her I knew that we would be together. I knew the type of person she was by her eyes and her smile and the way she looked at me; my intuition was absolutely right. Unfortunately, her alcoholism got in the way and destroyed all that was good. Looking back I have no regrets. In the time I knew her she was able to begin living again. It took all that to convince her to go to rehab. She has always thanked me for helping her to SEE. It took the vision of possibilites combined with the loss of a relationshipe for that to happen and although we are no longer together we are at least long distance friends.

I saw a face on a profile recently which reminded me of every good feeling I have ever had. Although I have determined myself to never again engage in a long distance relationship, sometimes I see someone who may just inspire the abandonment of any such inhibition. And although I am mature enough to recognize such initial feelings as infatuation, I will probably always be one to explore every possibility until I find my dream. So here is a poem which expresses those first thoughts of feeling that I felt. (I sent it to her first, and if it scares her altogether away I will know she is not the romantic soul I supposed her to be..."the first test") I think the poem has captured them well and combines the delicate balance between hope and apprehension.

sculpted fingers raised posed above her brow
she looks with sparkling eyes of mystery
Though never have I met her some feeling says I may
as she writes and shares same feelings about me

There is an ember in my heart which always seems to glow
through poetry and words I tend to share
and though I am determined long distance not to go
something in my heart's already there

For now I see a profile (illusion it may be)
But hope springs forth eternal, and is mine
past fear of feelings worn upon a sleeve...
would I dare embrace this fantasy divine?


Love is like a current, a river from a stream
beginning from one droplet of a dream

steven

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