Lost

How simply I became lost.

Directions and maps abandoned with the wink of
a sharp eye that made me stop and clutch my heart for fear of falling.
How quickly myself merged to themselves, to himself, and selfish actions
swarmed my world making a mockery of my independence.

Broken like a glass
hope. A strong force filled my pores with otherness, a scent I was
not familiar with lingered in my hair and misted my eyes until they
burned, always aflame.
Every thought turned to him,
a constant rhythm in my head.
He tapped away and became all the company I craved.

The blurred battlefield we had warred over,
you had won
Your need for me
now less than mine for you.

'Kiss me,' I say
and the cool cloth of your
lips wraps a blanket round
my nagging thoughts to smother them.
The searching question, like a spotlight:
'Is this it, love, true consuming love?'
Oh my love for I do love,
I do, I do, I do.