When I met you, you looked at me like no one had ever looked at me before / as in you looked at me right at my face seated cross legged on the floor / you stepped right over my clockwork legs and outstretched a gentle hand / and I stood up with some effort and made small talk with you and / I loved you then We struck up conversation about dreams and love and loss / we were both aspiring actresses with bad luck at making off / we talked about auditions and the awful human race / and you slipped me your address as I stared blankly at your face / I loved you then The first night that you kissed me on the rooftop back in May / I felt the touch of your lips linger on my fingertips for days and days / and the whole we kissed in August and October and in March / you started getting noticed up on billboards and in bars and bars and bars / I loved you then As we stumble through an after-party past the Broadway line / and you greet costars and directors with your normal hand in mine / I am slowly become hidden like a leap year lost in time / with the body of a childhood toy, forgotten / tossed aside I loved you then