Blink

Blink, pause, falter.

Love is that second you see someone and -

In the moment, there is only one thing.

Snap, flick, step

It's not an eternity, men are not granted such romance

It's a single brief moment before the world returns.

A solitary time when thought was suspended and we -

Are addicted. We chase the moment again and again.

Ache, yearn, plead

Eyes scan rooms, minds plots ways,

hands seek touch, and voices call out.

To recreate that second, more and longer.

Until a lifetime is spent. Hopefully in love.

The end is never known at that first look.

But for a beginning so beautiful, a second that -

stopped the world. We gladly see it to the conclusion.

Only for them, only for the one that made us -

Blink, pause, falter.