I didn’t know

That it would be thus;

I didn’t know

That a chance encounter

Would change my life;

I didn’t know

That reaching for your hand

In friendship, would make me

Yearn for your love,

I truly didn’t know.

I tried hard to forget,

How your simple words,

Your quiet humour,

Your serious thoughts,

Your complete contentment,

Mattered …I truly tried.

I came to your world prepared,

Prepared to encounter

An ordinary man,

A comforting friend;

But found instead,

A whisper of a soul,

The hues of fire,

The gentleness of spring,

The boyishness of charm,

And was lost, unprepared.

But I flounder not

I pain not, nor hurt,

For where there is no hope

There is no barter

There is simply…love.

~Horizon~