Smitten
Perhaps you had me
where you wanted me to be
But you certainly had me
where I wanted to be
It was a mutually beneficial
arrangement.
I was not so much trapped
like a fly in a silken web
But a hummingbird
lured to hidden nectar
Drawn by the scent
of something sweet.
There was a mystery there
not nature’s physicality
And youthful demands
that drove most pairs together
But the lure that brought
an artist to his subject.
It made perfect sense
that you and I should meet
And once met
there could be no turning back
We embarked on a course
of one direction only.
There was an inevitability
to the whole affair
Fated as day and night
bound together
Like left and right
one incomplete without the other.
It unfolded as it should
as bud becomes a bloom
Or sheet of paper
evolves into an origami swan
I was pleased
and you seemed so content.
Your first consent to meet
over coffee for me
And tea of course for you
set wheels in motion
Where neither could foretell
the final destination.
But I was smitten
as so I think were you
And so we carried on
content in the simple magic
Of this random chance
that brought us both together.