"A Special Day"

@Uootem (2000)

Our eyes meet
just like the first time..... again,
  a happenstance meeting in mid-morning,
  i've seen you other times,
    (yet so rarely), over the years
    a glance from across a room,
    a passing on the street,
  under fireworks skies,
  shopping in the market,
from passing cars... yours is red.
And I think to myself,
oh boy, you are lucky!
  i actually feel my heart skipping its beat,
  for it remembers a more vulnerable time
    when it first learned of love
    and its hard for me to maintain my composure,
    for something inside me wants to run to you....
  and fulfill those yesterday dreams.
  but reason takes control for I know
you have your life... I have mine too.
I can't believe this day,
seeing you as before,
  ... and not just in my memories of youth.
  you stand there, looking so wonderful,
    beautiful, alluring, loving and good,
    (just like you always were)...
      i move closer, you call my name...
    the sound somehow so familiar to the boy inside,
    and i wonder is this for real,
  does this woman remember that long ago?
  did she keep a little of "us" inside?
would it really matter if she did?
You walk over to me,
smiling so sweet,
  and you say something like
  "I am so glad to see you again"!
    but my head is full from the ringing
  of a thousand other words...
  you and I once shared with one another
in a much different time and place.
So we settle for a little casual conversation
and a polite hello... just like we greet other people we know.
  at least a hug would make it more authentic... i think,
  but you walk on by like just another day
    i struggle for something witty to say
    something to bring back memories to you.
    and revive for a while those yesterday dreams
  that the poet in me has written of so often.
  but reason takes control for I know
you have your life... I have mine too.
And again, its a special day,
our eyes met just like the first time..... again.