A CHANCE ENCOUNTER 🥺

I wandered through the sleepy town one day, With melancholy music in my ears, My heavy heart had nothing left to say, I'd carried all these sorrows, all these fears. Then suddenly you crossed my path by chance, My heartbeat skipped and stumbled in my chest, I tried to pull away, avoid the glance, But found my guarded soul could not protest. Without my knowing, love began to bloom, Like flowers breaking through the winter's frost, Dispelling all the shadows and the gloom, My careful resolutions all were lost. I shook away the world that held me tight, And realized this feeling was the truth, That in this unexpected, brief delight, I'd found the fountain of my vanished youth. I pulled back as you passed me by so near, Your presence like a sweet and sudden song, The promise that I'd never fall from fear, Had vanished, for my heart knew it was wrong. You made me fall in love against my will, My cautious walls came tumbling to the ground, My empty spaces you began to fill, With hope and joy I thought could not be found. I nearly stumbled, falling in the drain, So blinded by your brief and passing grace, That all my former worries were in vain, When I beheld the beauty of your face.