Only Once
- Mar 3
- 1 min read
March 2026
Only Once
by Clive Weslake
When I was very young
and life was new
My world was always full
of dreams
Growing old was far away
No tomorrow, just today
Nothing is the way it seems.
I knew that one day
I would fall in love
The way young people always do
How could I know what lay ahead?
Life played games with me instead.
I didn’t count on meeting you.
Only once
I always thought that love came
only once
That when you fell,
You fell in love to stay.
Now, all at once,
I realize it isn’t so
That love can come
and love can go
It happens every day.
He was mine
With him I found a world
that could not end
Or so I thought,
Right up until today
Then all at once
I looked across
and saw you there
And suddenly,
I knew,
Nothing I could do
Would make me look away.
Then all at once
I looked across
and saw you there
And suddenly I knew,
Nothing you could do
Would make me look away.
