First Sight

Yes, it’s a fact, at love’s first dawning I was smitten by the beauty of you. It made in me a desperately wanting Before a thing about you I found true. I can confess it now, say it straight out I was consumed by your bodily being. In that mystic moment I had no doubt That all else could await my perceiving. My mind raised sobering objections Certain I had forsaken my senses. But my heart had its own reflections And deployed soul-deep defenses. The yield of the years makes clear Your beauty came from down deep. Eyes and heart found what was dear— A love that we would forever keep.