Encounter
Bob Ludden
http://www.essex1.com/people/robert/
Beautiful girl,
With your approach
your eyes meet mine
and thus create
a steaming furnace
from a heart of ice
in one tumultuous instant.
And after that
I see you everywhere,
on streets,
in shops,
in restaurants,
and in the city park
one time.
Among the lovliest I've known,
no parallel contests
the archetype of lovliness
who will not compromise
her being for a moment--
YOU, and nothing more be asked
beyond forever.
Now you evoke
my syncopated breath,
appearing once again before me.
Botticelli's arm
would tremble at the sight.
Your garment floats in cadence
With your step.
As sand dunes shift in wind,
the soft material will mold itself
against your body to disclose
its perfect form.
With each nuance of motion,
In every frame of time,
You re-enact
the history of grace.
Closer now,
And I can almost hear your footsteps...
Closer still,
the field of vision narrows to our eyes;
no other world exists,
and I am hypnotized.
One pace apart!
Is my desire reflected there?
To meet your own?
You did not glance away!
But seared the channel of our sight
with unrepentant passion,
free of time and change.
One flash of lightning to illuminate
our dieing day,
but worth eternity....and forced to end
just in the moment that we meet.....
and pass on by.
