Love at First Sight

To my English teacher who asked us if we believed in love at first sight. Thanks for the idea. 


Is there such thing as love at first sight?
Can we see a stranger walking down the street,
And feel our hearts drop out of our chests 
In the realization that this stranger
This beautiful and new person 
Is the person you have been waiting for,
The person you have dreamed about 
Since the day you read your first fairy tale?
Can you really, truly love someone
If you don’t know them?
Or do people just want to believe 
In love at first sight?
Do they want to believe in small magics,
So they don’t have to think about the now?
Do they want to believe in rose petals and small kisses,
Just to believe in something?
Do they trick themselves into thinking 
That if it happens in movies and books 
It happens in real life. 
But those books and movies are fiction. 
Is there such a thing as love at first sight?
I guess you’ll never know 
Until it happens to you. 
If it ever happens to you.