can i remember the day i first saw you?
not to see you with my eyes,
given seeing your beauty was involuntary;
you burn like a wildfire, incandescence apparent.
but from when was that pyre lit in my mind?
when has this desire burnt its way into my hearth?
you crept up on me, i suppose,
as you dazzled me with your charming idiosyncracies,
working out your niche in my heart in silence.
increasingly you left me awestruck,
your pleasantry and beauty struck me like a match,
to burn away any hope of taking you off of my mind.
until one night, as i told you, i saw you
your laugh was so contagious, your smile an infection
i looked at a brief glimpse of the world through your eyes.
it felt like i’d seen in colour for the first time.
you read a unique glamour to the world,
and so tentatively, i let your radiance paint my life
so as my desire crept up on me, i’ve let my gaze linger
and now your smallest details can entrance me.
as you’ve brought your colour to my life
i wish now to share some of my own sight.
a vision of how wondrous you are, truly,
and why i am hopelessly, helplessly in love.