The clamor of the crowd began to fade,
A thousand voices died within the air,
When first upon my soul your glance was laid,
And silence bloomed most delicately there.
A sudden lightning struck the dim café,
A vertigo that spun the world around,
The mundane shadows fled before the day,
In your bright eyes, a heaven I had found.
My trembling hand betrays the heart’s swift beat,
A rhythm wild, electric, and divine,
Where two strange souls in sudden rapture meet,
To taste the vintage of a love at first sight like wine.
Oh, blessed Chance that guided us to see,
This flash of fate, this incandescent spark,
That binds my spirit evermore to thee,
A guiding star within the velvet dark.
This piece explores the transformative power of the first gaze. It reflects on how the chaos of the outside world falls away to reveal a singular point of focus, suggesting that destiny often disguises itself as coincidence until the moment of recognition.
