That moment…

a poem by Asha Sunil

I stood rooted to the spot
Though I knew was stupid to gawk
My eyes didn’t want to see anything else
My feet lost their strength to walk
I felt light-headed, my sanity slowly dissolving!
I felt butterflies rising in my stomach
It was a feeling I’ve never felt before
A feeling that made me want to feel more!
No words can ever do justice to that moment
That strange moment of exhilaration and fear
I was grown up all of a sudden
For a girl to an adolescent
An entire new chapter was opened in my life
One that I had never imagined before!
One look at his face and I knew
I had fallen really hard
He seemed to have stepped right out of my fantasies
My senses were thirsting at the sight of him
I can remember the warm colour that washed my cheeks
Those tiny, stolen, guilty glances too
It took me several moments of self-conflict
And a strong dosage of my new maturity
To sublime this strange sensation
And drop back to reality!
Now I hardly remember his face!
The face was once etched upon my dreams!
That day had soon faded away from my memory!
The coming years saw a more stronger and cynical me,
But the magical moment still stays deep within
The moment I had my first crush!!!