POETRY: First Sight by Reggie Drake

When I saw her it was like....

The culmination of long concealed felicity bursting through the confines of my heart,

Sprouting like a shovel striking an undiscovered well.

I felt it.

The sensual energy generated by our adjacent bodies in close proximity.

It sends chills down my spine,

As I picture us,

Living out the days of our youth,

Aloof to otherworldly worries and issues,

Choosing to remain trapped voluntarily within a realm of blissful unawareness.

I see us holding hands in later years,

Even with our faces withered with wrinkles,

And the corporal aspect of our intimate affiliation fading like dusk into dawn.

I could never leave this.

I will NEVER leave you.

The moment your gaze became fixated on mine... I knew

At that moment my heart and yours became one in the same;

Joint-locked in virtual space where it appeared no one but you and me existed,

Like two star-crossed lovers intertwined in the web of fate.

It was destiny.

The contingency of our happen chance meeting.

My coincidental glance.

All of it choreographed by heavenly specters gently lowering their guiding eyes down upon us mere mortals,

Initiating our union into holy matrimony.

All of this I knew...

The moment I walked past you.