Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2014: The First | Page 6

First Glance
Caleb Brennan
At first glance
They took their time,
Slowly as two shy ghosts.
They re-assure themselves with a look,
A glance at what the other was doing.
They don’t want to make mistakes
Like all the times before.
So they stare wishing for the other
To act first. He moved first.
He was hoping that he was moving
Towards her like all those classes,
His mother made him go to as a young child.
She waited, as he came closer and closer,
She was fantasising that he was the big chested
Protagonist from all her Chick-lits she had read
And learned to live in.
She still wasn’t disappointed
When the scrawny pigeon-chested boy asked her,
For her hand to dance.