One True Love 24

8

There’s a point in the future

That we cannot see,

But whose permanence

 And persistence

Is foretold

By numerous clues.

We pre-see darkly,

Knowing only shapes

And colors.

The essence can be

Recognized only at the time

When it is there.

 
"8, There's a point in the future" was first published in Two Wholes Make It Total, 1978.  The persona hints that he might have waited for his new true love if he had been more aware of both himself and what he needed, but accepts that such a revelation can't come without experience.
 
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