Youthful Infatuation

02 March 2026

https://poems.culturing.net/2026/03/youthful-infatuation/

Was this a youthful infatuation all along?
And for how long? It occurs to me that our paths
may have crossed in the digital realm, that I may
have drawn you here unknowingly, that maybe our "first"
encounter was really, in part, devised, by you,
to fulfill an ongoing fantasy. How much of you
was real? How much a reflection of me?