In every town and village, In every city square, In crowded places I searched the faces Hoping to find Someone to care.
I read mysterious meanings In the distant stars, Then I went to schoolrooms And poolrooms And half-lighted cocktail bars. Braving dangers, Going with strangers, I don't even remember their names. I was quick and breezy And always easy Playing romantic games.
I wined and dined a thousand exotic Joans and Janes In dusty halls, at debutante balls, On lonely country lanes. I fell in love forever, Twice every year or so. I wooed them sweetly, was theirs completely, But they always let me go. Saying bye now, no need to try now, You don't have the proper charms. Too sentimental and much too gentle I don't tremble in your arms.
Then you rose into my life Like a promised sunrise. Brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong, Now I'm where I belong.
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The poem describes the narrator feeling lost, going through several levels until eventually falling in love.
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