Love Poem: Smitten Strangers
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Written by: Agona Apell

Smitten Strangers

When through a bustling crowd 
Loving eyes hew a tunnel 
Their sweet messages to exchange
And two strangers dumb and numb with love
Suddenly want to kiss but not with their lips, 
To hug but not with their arms, 
And to confess love but not with their tongues 
Whilst their wary tongues, lips, and arms shed 
their numbing coats of ice—
It is then that their flaming eyes
Must reach across the thawing ice and by one
look plant a kiss; and another a hug; and 
yet another a confession.
For between smitten strangers too timid to touch,
A loving look makes the softest kiss, 
A longing look the warmest hug, 
And a daring look the loudest confession of love.