My head turned, my eyes catching sight.
My heart turned toward, burned, yearned.
I spurned the thoughts the sight had brought.
A quick introduction and I learned her name,
Which, important or not, all the same, I forgot.
We took different cars and though sometimes far
Apart, to her my thoughts always returned.
Four hours brought us together and her sight
Incited my heart, now taut, to talk.
We shared our decades of memoirs:
When she spoke, I gawked; When I spoke,
With shock, I realized it evoked interest.
We dared to share our lives, our words
Chosen with care, our drives, thrives, strives
To explain our innards, avoiding the
Hazards of speaking of each other.
We split and spoke again later
To ascertain what we wanted to attain:
Who's goals were the greater gain.
Conversation abscessed and night progressed and the moon began to wane.
Beer possessed and lain in sleeping bags,
Sleep creeping close, but easily keeping awake,
For sake of the next day, we agreed to sleep.
She buried her face in her sheet
To fend off the outdoor breed of mosquito,
And I faked comfort and under the covert
Black of night, my attention did not divert
From her grace which I longed to embrace
So it could never be erased from memory.