The ravenous feeling of late night
Thoughts anything but straight
Still thinking in the morning light
In those stars is my fate
With you, soaring higher than a kite
I fall back to earth in a different state
Struggling with all my might
Nervous on our first date
These butterflies took flight
Surviving the impossible wait
Until you wondered into eyesight
And this pounding heart rate
What a time for stage fright
An outlier, a love expatriate
Now here as a neophyte
You’ve opened a mighty floodgate
Carried away, nothing to fight
Late life tends to rejuvenate
Laughs, elation, humble, contrite
The inner emotions of a soulmate
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