Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska
<3 <3 <3 Focus. They're both convinced Meaning perhaps what they're convinced about is wrong That a sudden passion joined them. Self-explanatory - saw her/him needed her/him loved her/him Such certainty is beautiful But uncertainty is more beautiful still. This uncertainty is what the whole poem is about, as we shall see: Since they'd never met before, they're sure that there'd been nothing between them. The two lovers are under the impression that in their whole loves, they have never once met before, and so could not have had any kind of association or relationship with each other. But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways - perhaps they've passed each other by a million times? Now Wislawa points out that they could have met a million times and not known it - on the streets, staircases, hallways. I want to ask them if they don't remember - a moment face to face in some revolving door? perhaps a 'sorr...