Once You've Been In Love

  What do you want to write about?

A male friend asked me that question about two months ago.

What do I want to write about?

I thought everybody already knew the answer to that question.

I write about being a woman.

Once You’ve Been in Love

Once you awake in someone’s arms
Once you have shared the dawn.

Once You Have Been in Love is a song written for the 1972 film, One Is A Lonely Number with music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman.

The lead character is played by Trish Van Devere. Her husband has left her for a much younger woman. She asks her current lover the following four questions.

1) Am I good in bed?

Once you have dreamed in someone’s arms

2) Am I pretty?

Once you have known the joys of time, the smiles of time
Can you walk alone across the miles of time?

3) Am I smart?

After your eyes are dazzled by the summer sunlight – oh how long before they grow accustomed to the dark of winter.

4) Am I the kind of woman you would marry?

Once I belonged in someone’s arms
I never felt the cold
And once I believed in someone’s arms
That they would always hold me

How did she just do that?

Once I was sure how real it was
Now I try to pretend it never was

How does she know exactly how I torture myself when a love affair is over?

But with so many memories where do you begin?
Once you’ve been in love.

 Originally posted in “A Life In Words”: October 15th 2013