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Entrancing

There’s music in your voice

rhythm in your body

and an elegant chaos in your mind

I can’t imagine

anything more entrancing

than you

with a story to tell

Books

if not your mind

I shall read your books.

I’ll live in the stories that crafted you

Breathe in the fiction that forged your reality

Assembling within me, your visage

Character by character

Line by line

Word by word

Unshackled

What must you be - I wonder

to command my every waking thought

to invade the solace of my dreams

to dine

on the agonizing yearning

you’ve manifested in me?

And what must I be

to live to feed you

to pray I’m never unshackled

to be effervescent

in my enthralment?

Urgency

I want you to want me

like the ocean wants the shore

like the moon wants the day

like the Winter wants the Spring’s blooming

Thirst for me like oasis just over the horizon

as if I’m all you’ll ever need - just beyond reach

Marinate in desolate, immolating desire

so that when our time comes

our love

will taste of the sweetest urgency

Fill

My mind

enthralled

an ever playing cinema

of moments passed and yet to be

with a single star - you.

My eyes

taste original sin on your skin

your fingers

your collar bone,

betraying eternity

for a single bite of your silhouette

My heart

pumps its scarlet soil

in preparation

for every inch of sinew and bone

the garden patchwork of my body

to be fertilized by you

your hopes

your gaze

your love