A Moment In Time

A moment in time.. I saw you across the room the other day, Much like another time when you held my gaze, Pulling me in with one passing glance Our longing eyes betraying thoughts, that this might be another chance This is crazy I thought, we both surmised and laughed. Looking away, looking back again, can anyone else see what’s going on? This moment of desire shared between you and me, Embracing the what ifs and what would be? Two strangers living separate lives, intertwining paths in space and time Connecting in ways we could not explain The thought of one touch occupying all senses Haunted by the what could have been If I would have been, the one to say I do We recently shared a moment in awkward conversation Trying to be informal and coy, But what we really wanted was to Wrestle with the deep mysteries of each other. The woman in you celebrating the man in me The man in me praising the woman in you, the beauty of you With your long hair and misty eyes, just something about the way You look at me, makes my body leap inside, and weep at the same time. Where were you from? What was your name? The love from my youth is one and the same, Has it been that long? Forbidden romance lost in memory Something of a glimpse captured in remembrance, Yes! You found me in my misery long ago Wanting to love me out of a misguided childhood, Only to be met with at the time, a beautiful mess We shared intimate conversation, falling for one another As words fell from our lips, an exchange of hopes and dreams We fulfilled a need in one another, drying tears from each other’s eyes For a season, But momentum drove us on separate paths, on distant shores I watched you fade away, like a fog across the bay. Do I have regrets and will I have regrets? Sure I do, and yes I will, I didn’t have the words to tell you then, what pride refused to say, That you meant more to me than handholds on a treacherous mountain, That your tenderness broke through layers of bitterness left untouched, And that now, like before you shake the foundations of my very being, Only you have been able to reach me there. Shall we embrace this forbidden love? Build a future out of broken lives? You have yours and I have mine, what will become of us if we pursue? Sometimes true love is never meant to be shared, if it decimates The only thing you know to be true, what is real and what is now And the impact a dream can have. So when I see you now, at least for the moment I can believe and know Your okay and that life has treated you well and that you’re happy, We can find peace in our circumstances, the way we found each other again. And smile remembering that once we shared a moment in time..