Wislawa Szymborska, a polish poetess, ingeniously written one of my favorite poetry - Love At First Sight. She poetized the feeling of affinity in the air; concreted the inadvertent events that happen in life and utilized antithesis, which makes this poem even more consuming, persuasive, significant and beautiful.
Wislawa Szymborska, the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Love At First Sight
Both are convinced
That a sudden surge of emotion bound them together...
Beautiful is such a certainty
But uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Because they didn't know each other earlier,
They supposed that nothing was happening between them.
What of the streets, stairways and corridors,
Where they could have
Passed each other long ago
I'd like to ask them whether they remember
- perhaps in a revolving door ever being face to face?
An 'excuse me' in a crowd
Or a voice 'wrong number' in the receiver.
But I know their answer:
No, they don't remember.
They'd be greatly astonished
To learn that for a long time chance had been playing with them.
Not yet wholly ready
To transform into fate for them,
It approached them, then backed off,
Stood in their way
And, suppressing a giggle, jumped to the side.
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