The First Time I Saw You
The first time I saw you,
I felt nothing.
Unimpressed and numb.
So much for love at first sight.
The fifth time I saw you,
I wanted to be your friend.
Someone to bother
Late at night, or
Text right after class.
The sixth time I saw you,
We were friends.
Laughing and joking
As though we had known each other
Our whole lives.
The one hundred-and-seventh time I saw you,
It was different.
Highly impressed and joyous.
I wanted to be around you,
Just in your presence.
The one hundred-and-fiftieth time I saw you,
I felt something I had never felt before.
Breathing in your air
Was something special.
It was love
At one hundred-and-fiftieth sight.
The one hundred-and-sixty-first time I saw you,
There had been a mistake.
A terrible accident,
A purposeful accident,
Not an accident at all.
The one hundred-and-seventieth time I saw you,
I tried to explain for almost the
Tenth time,
I wasn't thinking,
I loved you,
It happened to others
All the time.
The one hundred-and-seventy-first time I saw you,
We ended.
We crashed and we burned
Like in your favorite racing game.
My tears,
Your persistence.
The two hundredth time I saw you,
I wanted to be your friend.
Someone to bother
Late at night, or
Text right after class.
The two hundred-and-first time I saw you,
We were not friends.
Things need time
To heal and scab.
The three hundredth time I see you,
Things will be different.