Implicit Love

The moment I knew you, I did not know;

I did not know what I knew,

You did not have me at hello

But I did admire the view,

Your smile saturated mundane scenes

Tinting the world anew,

Kaleidoscopic red, pink, and greens

In shades I never knew.

An ardent spirit from beyond the grave

Arose in an anxious debut,

‘Twas your beauty that stirred the dormant wave;

Friendship that made it break through,

Gazing became an act of theft

When you wordlessly withdrew—

If love is blind, then looks are deaf,

For you neither acknowledged the two.

Visions of you still clench my mind

Like a lid too stiff to unscrew—

If love is patient, or even kind

Why do these eyes feel black and blue?