Subject: I've Known You Before
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: dnb-as1s27.erols.com
Date: Mon Oct 20, 1997 at 8:53AM

I've known you before - no, not metaphorically, in some other life

But here - in this one ... it was a look across the aisles - a little spark
Flew between us - and the electric shock I felt had none of the strife
Which had played into these things before and sent me back to the ark

And yet - when I looked back at the tea-kettles and attempted to muster
The strength within me to gaze back into your intensity and swallow you
A remembrance of past put-offs prevented me from setting up the lustre
And when I finally did look up, you had disappeared wholly from my view

I shall always remember that small moment quite frozen in time in my mind
It was electric - of this I have no doubt - for I saw it again as you gazed at me
Yesterday ... and I knew I had been here before - a remembrance not blind
And I told you all about it - right in the middle of our chat ... over our hot tea

What had gone between us - either in Linens & Things or Bed, Bath & Beyond
And then came a faint recollection which spun freely within your lovely gaze
As the gears turned, and you knew it to be true ... a wonder of wonder longed
And as you sputtered over your tea ... then I knew I was so right about that day

Now we have become in tune with each other in a way we could not have seen
For the connection made now is full of other things ... some are right, some wrong
And as we unravel each other's mystery ... and stoke each other's fires to steam
The realization comes to me - it might have been different before the current song

But whether it would have been any better than it is now - on this day in time
Remains to be seen ... for the road we have travelled down leads into a valley
Lush with growth and bright awakenings of body, heart, spirit, soul and mind
For this connection is rife with depth of knowledge gained through like galleys

What it might have been before would have avoided much of what we now know
For the path we have taken is cultivated with fine herbs, spices, and other goods
Which, probably, could not have been so - were we to have just followed that glow
On that day - when a spark was felt, and arrested in its tracks, as perhaps it should

And the vibes I feel right now as I think of you again and again when we are apart
Are full of angst, and some distress ... but balanced with heightened sense of awe
Which I tend to dwell on - for the latter feeling is so much more welcome to my heart
For the beauty you are - drives me with an intensity which makes me so much more.

Christopher W. Thomas
8:50am Monday 10/20/97