VISION OF LOVELINESS
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
ONCE UPON ALMOST UNFORGOTTEN TIME
SHE STOOD SO STILL AND SILENTLY
GAZING TOWARDS TOMORROW INTROSPECTIVE
EXUDING ALLURE UNDIRECTED IN ANY PARTICULAR WAY
A VISION UNSTUCK IN TIME WHOSE LOVELINESS
WAS ABLE TO SOFTLY SCAR AND ENTRANCE A VACUOUS MIND
AS MINE ALONG IT’S WAYWARD PATH TO TOMORROW
I NEVER FELT SUCH RAPTURE BEFORE SHE SMILED
AND EVEN IF NOT IN MY DIRECTION’S RESIGN
I WAS TRANSFIXED UPON HER BEGUILING PERFECTION
FULFILLING SOMESONE’S IDLE INFATUATION,IF NOT MINE
SHE MOVED ACROSS THE STREET MESMERIZING ME
ACROSS THE PAGE WITH INFINITE WONDEROUS RAGE
SO ANGELICALLY INNOCENT YET SO CASUALLY SECURE
UNAWARE OF HER EXUDING BEAUTY DEMURE
A MAGNET FOR LOST SOULS SEEKING A WELCOMING SHORE
WHERE THERE WAS ONLY REJECTION GALLORE
EACH MOVEMENT SHE MADE DEFINED PERFECTION
NO MATTER WHAT DESTINATION ATTRACTING INSPECTION
SHE SASHAYED EVER SO SWEETLY IN CURIOUS WONDER
FOR THOSE SUCH AS I WHO SURVEYED HER POTENTIAL
UNNOTICED AND MEEKLY ENTRAPT IN HER MAZE
THAT LEAD LIKE A SHADOW UNFAZED OF SUCH PURVIEW
WALTZING ACROSS EACH HEART SO UNEVENLY ASKEW
A COLLECTIVE GASP COULD BE HEARD IN SILENT RELEASE
AS SHE TURNED UNEXPECTEDLY AND NOTICED UNAWARE
OF THE WONDER SHE PROVIDED FOR THE MISGUIDED
THERE I STOOD FROZEN LIKE SOME BIBLICAL PILAR OF SALT
UNABLE TO MURMUR A RESPONSE THAT WOULD EXALT
THE FEELING SHE CREATED WITHIN A VISION TO REMIND
THAT SUCH BEAUTY EXISTED IN SUCH AN UNBEARABLE TIME
YET THERE I WAS ON THIS FORTUITOUS DAY TO DISCOVER
HER WALTZING IN TIME ACROSS SOME UNLIT STREET
DRAWING EACH VIEW MAGNETICALLY COMPLETE
INTO THE ENTANGLING WEB OF HER UNAWARE CHARM
WHICH SO EASILY TRANSFIGURED ONE’S DESIRE
INTO INCONGRUOUS ALARM WONDERING REPLETE
WHERE DREAMS ARE OFTEN FOUND WANDERING IN SLEEP
PERHAPS TO DREAM OF WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE
IN ANOTHER TIME OF HER BEWILDERING SENSUALITY