A Poem for my Love

I stood on the stage in The Teapot, a hundred eyes boring into me. I felt each pair, but I couldn't focus on them. They weren't important. The only pair of eyes that mattered was the cerulean pair that belonged to the mare I was about to confess to with a poem.

I cleared my throat and spoke, albeit nervously, "I haven't written a poem in years, so forgive me if it's a bit rusty... I wrote this for somepony who's grown much closer than I'd ever expected. She's here tonight, and I'd like to formally dedicate this poem to her... Thank you, Fluttershy, for showing me what I'm about to describe."

"It was deep in the star-lit night,
where I felt myself in embrace so tight.
When I realized it was a dream,
I'd felt something more than friendship it seemed.
And it feels like I know those eyes,
that see my soul and now paralyze.
I return her loving gaze
that pierces my heart and sets it ablaze."

The crowd, including the timid pegasus I'd come to love, was enraptured by my words. Her eyes, widened with surprise, lay welded to me. Her ears were perked in my direction, and she covered her mouth with a hoof. I could see tears threatening to burst forth glimmering in the dim light of the teashop. I continued:

"I woke up from the dream in the night,
feeling a little wrong but oh so right.
But I didn't know that the dream was real
and I didn't quite know just how to feel.
So I fetched my quill and I grabbed my ink
and sat down to write and forget how to think."

I stared directly into her eyes, "She knew what I was thinking of,
but never knew that she taught me love."

Author's Note

Suggested by I HV NO FEAR.

The poem is supposed to match the verses of this:

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