…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