Several Times Have We Been in Love

Several times
have we been in love
before, you and I.

Once, long ago,
on the eve of a
diminishing
boyhood, I caught a glimpse
of you,
and what love could be:
should be.

And then, in the rush
of teen hormones
I imagined the passion,
and almost saw you
there
behind a facade
of lust.

Ideals flying,
I set forth on a voyage
of romanticism,
soon wrecked
on the rocks
of Reality.
But you were there
with your siren song
of truth,
of change,
of love,
of us.

Several times
have we been in love
before, you and I:
but this time
is for us.