I think George, your poem illustrates you know more than most and the much of which you are fortunate to know, includes love, requited or not is still love exemplified.
I know just such a magician, whose lips set me and my soul afire in the way back when. I have often wondered if, in further pursuit of more than a kiss, I dimmed the efflorescence which was that kiss and that lady. Your poems, George, always set me to wondering.