The One Right Before Their Eyes

On a whim he'd had his portrait painted by Pricasso

At a party he attended with a debauched debutante

She considered him at most to be an intellectual rake

And at the very least a deviant idiot savant

He thought her behavior was deliberate satire

Of her convent education and forced proper etiquette

She thought his rash impulsiveness a relief

From all the fools who thought of her as delicate

All they each had ever wanted 
Was to be free of the burden of living life in disguise
All they each had ever hoped for 
They both discovered sitting right before their eyes

She had seen him in the supermarket
Shopping for bachelor supplies in a 3-piece suit
He had noticed her at a neighbors bar-b-que
Drinking Coca Cola from a champagne flute

Some would call it serendipity

Some would call it chance

Two kindred souls discovering each other

Suddenly relevant characters in a Gothic romance

All they each had ever wanted
Was to be free of the burden of living life in disguise
All they each had ever hoped for
They both discovered sitting right before their eyes

It took months before the well-built walls came down
It took months before either one would admit to the possibility
Both of them surprised by the stirrings that they felt
Both of them trying hard not to admit what was obviously
Sitting right before their eyes

Both of them had spent their lives
Convinced there was never going to be a day
When they would meet a person they actually liked
And who would feel about them the same way

All they each had ever wanted
Was to be free of the burden of living life in disguise
All they each had ever hoped for
They both discovered sitting right before their eyes