I saw you <br />Amidst a crowd of nameless faces <br />I saw you <br />And though there should have been no reason <br />For my attention to be accosted, <br />Somehow my gaze became soft-focus <br />And homed in on your profile <br />Shutting out the periphery <br />As the room became smaller <br /> <br />I saw you <br />As if you were the only one around <br />I saw you <br />And watched as you talked and laughed <br />And danced your eyes <br />I listened for the strains of your voice <br />But all sounds melted in the heat of the moment <br />And formed globules <br />Which pounded inside my chest <br /> <br />I saw you <br />And it registered on the Richter scale <br />I saw you <br />And shock waves caressed my senses <br />And I drifted away <br />Lost in long-forgotten excitement. <br />But all in a moment sanity hit <br />Like a cold shower <br />Feelings, guilt-ridden and numbed <br />Cascaded into inner blushes <br /> <br />To the logic of the mind <br />There are no excuses <br /> <br />But the heart has reasons of its own<br /><br />Bob Oldfield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heart-has-reasons/
