…haunted

I want to be possessed, haunted
to feel you in me when you are far away
I want to taste your kisses in my dreams

I want to hear your whispers on the wind
to fall asleep with your breath upon my skin
I want to awaken with desire, with longing
to see your face in every crowd

I want to call to you with my heart
to crave you, as if for air
to have you in my thoughts
I want to keep nothing back

to know everything and nothing
I want to find you through intuition
to sense your presence in a room
I want to know your scent above all others

to ache with memory and imagination
I want to endure your absence restlessly
to be distracted by you, drawn to you
I want to be captured, held in your gaze

to hold your warmth within me, burning
I want to know your secrets and to fear them
I want to hurt for your pain, your suffering
to share my soul, myself

I want to find you both lacking and perfect
I want to hide you in my dreams
I want to be with you when I am alone
to lose myself in the forest of your mind

I want to walk for years in the desert of your love
to climb the summit of desire
I want to fall forever into the depths of your eyes
to drown in your reality

I want to be possessed, haunted
I want to feel you in me when you are far away
I want to taste your kisses in my dreams
© Ann Bagnall
2013