Romeo's Gaze
(Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
The rain fell steady, as I entered the ball,
My heart in my throat, listening to Capulet drawl,
Inside they wore masks: peacocks, tigers, green and blue,
And it was then, as I gazed up, that my eyes fell on you,
A fiery star you were, with beauty divine,
Gazing far away, with a radiant face so fine!
But it was not this that captured my heart,
It was your eyes, that from the others, kept you apart,
They flickered and danced with such glorious flames,
They sang of magical lands, with strange magical names,
They held velvety darkness, and blinding light too,
They told of whispering rain, and clear skies anew,
I was suddenly falling in voids of galaxies and stars,
I was drifting from reality, to somewhere very far,
Oh I was lost in your eyes and drowning so fast,
I had forgotten my future, my present, my past,
Your dreams filled mine, gave new breath to me,
I’d escaped this time, now floating in a timeless sea,
Who were you, the one to colour my world?
The most beautiful beauty, strange celestial girl?
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