The look

The mixed messages of love and attraction can entirely take away one's confidence in both men and women. This is one such experience...

                   The look

 

Compelled to turn

By your steady stare

A look of mystery

Baffling and not very fair

 

Perplexed I faltered

Embarrassed and shy

That I’d been noticed

I wondered why

 

Gliding away

Avoiding the power

Of those amazing eyes

I moved really far

 

To breathe more freely

To think more clearly

To calm my heart beat

To bring back sanity

 

I checked my reflection

On the glass on the door

Was something amiss?

Was something in store?

 

You were a stranger

That entered my space

Handsome and confident

To stare without grace

 

A look so intent

Was it aversion?

Was I familiar?

Or was it attraction

 

Later you told me

You were entirely enthralled

From the first time you saw me

As I entered the hall

 

Love and attraction

Confuse things it might

Even if garbled

The heart sets it right

Reviews

[Tanya7]

this is a great poem. the confusion it describes is very real, and the doubts you wrote about definitely destroy ones confidence.