Gong

I've had this on backlog for a while and I just hope to God that I don't have to face the repercussions of this one

Oftentimes when you first fall in love with someone

You see them normally until something changes

With a laugh, a glance, a thought or anything that is little

And you feel your heart thump in your chest

Or less of a thump and more like

A gong being struck

Resounding in brassy, shudder-inducing waves

And a switch flips

A light turns on

And they become illuminated

And mostly, that gong-striking feeling is a one-time type of thing

Mostly

I have somehow arrived in a situation where every small thing

Causes the same sort of reaction like first falling in love

I listen to your stories and

Gong! Another reverberation

I hear you laugh the way you do

So completely and fully and that it almost takes over you

And it’s like there’s no gong to be struck

Only me, directly and tremendously, right in the heart

Seeing you

You so happy and me wanting to sweep you into a dizzying kiss

That I can only dismiss and hear your laugh turn softer

And then your laugh trails off and you look up

With the gleam of joy still in your eye, the smile still upon your face

And like a delayed reaction

Gong!

And all of a sudden I have to sit down

Let my heart stop racing

I don’t quite understand it

But I’ve come to a tentative conclusion

That even though emails have been exchanged and conversations had

More formal, decisive than the first giddiness of falling

I am still falling just as much in love with you

As I always have been

Author's Note

I swear if anybody in this online realm meets me in real life you will understand that I actually have the mental capacity of a worm and I am disguising it with extravagant poetry

Reviews

[Eggplant]

This poem was beautiful! I love the way that you were able to describe the heart while in love, I really had pulled me into your poem, and I felt what you were trying to convey with this. You portrayed feelings into your poem, and that is really important when it comes to a poem. "I am still falling just as much in love with you as I always have been" This line was perfect for ending your poem, because it pulls your whole story and message together into one small line. it summed up the story. I really don't have anything to say regarding edits or changes you could make to this poem, seeing you did such a great poem. You even managed to slip in a small story of falling in love! Fantastic! I really enjoyed this, and I hope to see more from you. Just contact me when you have a new poem like this one ;)
-Lily