Love Enters Heaven

Is it a sin to love my own company?
Is it a manic compulsion
to want to spend my time enjoying
my own solitary body in the world?
More altruistic to focus
my love on others, right?

My love is focused on others, of course,

but my flirtations are mostly action at a distance.
Still, when I encounter you in the flesh, my dear,
it’s like an epiphany shared—
both object of love’s tender gaze
and the lover gazing.