1. Walking one day by a cafe, I heard your lyrical laugh
2. Your voice caught my attention to so rich and deeply resonating
3. I had to stop to take one look around and asked one of the staff
4. Your name and if you were local, for whom you seemed to be waiting
5. No name given and not a local was the reply, you waited for no other
6. I had to know your name, engage you in a bit of chatter, I felt so drawn
7. When I came upon you, said hello and saw your face, I cold not speak further
8. I knew, my heart and soul as well, this was no simple liaison
9. Asking if the seat was taken, I looked in your eyes and found my world there
10. Those eyes I’d seen a hundred times, but in my dreams, before me
11. You welcomed me and gave a smile, my heart leapt in my chest, I had no air
12. I’d never felt such pull, such hope and need so close and not to this degree
13. Introductions made, we began to converse and life suddenly felt completed
14. We ordered food and drink, spent hours getting acquainted well
15. My thoughts began to wander to our future, my life, her life accreted
16. All too soon the meal ended, the conversation dwindled, she rose to say farewell
17. I asked her number and where she stayed and she shared the information
18. My soul’s mate left and walked away, me eager to see her once more
19. Evening fell, my heart did ache, needed to see her before the end of her vacation
20. Was this a passing fancy, desperate need, destined love, I wanted to explore
21. I rang her line and she picked up and I asked her to come out
22. The object of my heart, sadly declined, said she had commitments
23. She’d leave next day, needed to pack and had no time to mill about
24. My soul cried out, as hopes and dreams began to die in this predicament
25. I asked her if she felt what was between us, she said she did indeed
26. She could not just leave to be with me, it did not seem to her to be wise
27. Then tears began to fall on the call and we felt desperately in need
28. To find ones mate, then have it torn away, I’d found a gift and she her prize
29. She touched my soul and made my life whole without her there’d be no hope
30. Yet she could not just stay and I understood, she’d need to go back home
31. Running to her, I knocked on the door, got on one knee and asked her to elope
32. She gasped as tears fell from her eyes, we both had known our meeting was not random
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