…in my soul

You were a storm in my soul
unknowingly, you distracted me
you were everywhere
in all the passing places
the rising of the dawn
the melting of the day
the star set sky
the stark, breathless beauty
you were there
and I could not look away

I imagined that I heard your voice
it lingered in my memories
endlessly echoing
in swirling morning mists
and heavy evening shrouds
like the surging of an orchestra
you lifted me up, and I shut out
everything, but you
finding endless bliss
in my unacknowledged limerence

thoughts of you
had me soaring with the birds
you carried my heart
and I was running like a river
dreaming I was drowning
in depths of your eyes
you were my salty seaside breezes
that I felt upon on my skin
you were an ocean
roaring and surging
and I was ever lost in you

you were always there
in the perfume of a rose
and the heady scent of jasmine
I breathed you in
and tasted you on my tongue
like an exotic foreign fruit
an assault upon my senses
bittersweet, addictive
you were my secret pleasure
my sweet obsession

like a velvety elixir
in my dreams
you would slide within me
burn me with your touch
and you possessed me
you would hold me in your gaze
and I couldn’t look away
like a moth to a flame
I was drawn to you
you were inescapable
and perilous
both my destiny
and my destruction
© Ann Bagnall