Soul Mate

(19/08/06-Ben Heine)

Soul Mate

By Robert W. Birch ©2001

We met but once as though by chance,

We didn't date, or did we dance.

We looked into each other's eyes

Without deception or disguise.

A silent message passed between

Your hungry heart was plainly seen.

You saw desire I could not hide,

You looked at me and saw inside.

How could a glance have said so much,

And cause a chill without a touch?

What was that chemistry that night,

That promised what we felt was right?

What satisfaction we'd have missed,

If we had not reached out and kissed.

I do not know if it was you,

Or was it I who said, "Let's do."

But on that night our souls were bare

As surely as our bodies there.

Our bodies moved in harmony,

I couldn't tell the you from me.

And locked in passion as we were,

My sense of time began to blur.

I must have known you from before,

How else could you have reached my core?

In life perhaps before this one

What had we shared? What had we done?

With what I felt, emotions vast,

I must have loved you in the past.

But now we go our separate ways,

To different lives throughout our days.

I keep you though within my dreams,

Eternal soul mate, so it seems.

Robert W. Birch