Narcissus - Patricia Barber

I’m falling in love with her

Hopelessly smitten and strangely driven

To stop and stare and wonder

How have I been here before?

And why do I want more and more?

Each into the other

This plainly forbidden fruit that has given

Form to what was private bliss

Upon reflection I find

I’m losing myself and my mind

Can I woo her through the looking glass

This refraction of light I see?

In the pool face to face we match

Like ghosts, like family, like angels

Translucent and in-between

I’m falling in love with her

Brazenly object, willingly subject

As sunlight through the moon

Like a soliloquy or two

Forever as one, me and you