Long, slender fingers 

That I hadn’t seen before

The sight of you lingers 

The way you move, hidden lore 

You hold your pencil strangely

Proof of your different past?

I’ve been hooked on you lately

Wondering if it might last 

People may call you hot

And while they’re not 

Wrong, I would call you gorgeous 

One could say you’re the heavens in chorus

You look like perfection walking 

If perfection were alive

It would lay down at your feet

Look up at you and sigh 

I’m dazzled by your diamond mind 

Throwing me when I least expect it

I didn’t think that anywhere else I could find 

Someone so sharp, I never did suspect it 

And although I dislike your entourage 

I don’t think you’re part of the sabotage 

That they enjoy, the violent delights

Of their ill-spent nights 

Perhaps I’ve been rendered blind

By the stars in my eyes

Or perhaps I’m vainly searching 

For something that never was lurking 

The inflections of your tongue 

Betray your foreign young 

Smooth and deep as velvet 

While it transports me yet 

Into a castle full of warnings and signs 

Where you must always read in between the lines 

You make me feel like an inhabitant 

Of that house of devil's advocates 

I know I could become 

A sucker for blood

But only if it spills over the edges 

Of the caramel that somehow dredges 

In your skin

If only you were a forbidden apple

And I Eve, you know I understand the grapple

With the sensation of juice spilling down her chin 

Exposed too long to your enthral 

I would fall 

To my weakened knees

Into the foggy, blissful, forgetting breeze

If you were nepenthe

I would surely 

Quaff you down 

And yearning, yearning, for the deepened drown 

If only I could run my hands through your hair 

It would be impossible for me to resist 

The godforsaken swear 

Of a carnivorous kiss

Oh lord I can recall

The wondrous fear of the fall

Oh lord I can remember 

How my soul burned like an ember

And when you speak to me 

It’s like I’m suddenly free

Of the voices around us, in my head

And the underlying current of dread

Would that make you an island?

Marooned in the bluest of seas

I wouldn’t mind starving to death 

If your presence is the only thing I eat

I see your muscles flex

With the power of your potential 

I see the sweat glisten on your neck 

And your energy, torrential 

The dark wells of your eyes 

Leave me satisfied

Knowing I’ll see them once more

Perpetual waves lapping the shore 

It’s not hard to look and see

How you move me so easily 

How I could only ever see you in green 

And the gentle madness of ebony 

How I wish I could see your other sides 

The ones that you may hide 

The ones that live inside 

Of your obvious, glaring pride

We have the same legacy in mind 

I could make yours mine 

I know that we could do more than shine 

We could render them blind 

Exploring rooms in this tower of gold  

Built on confessions of old 

I’m just confessing I hope you don’t let go

Flying away, a black, shining crow 

So let me hear the beat of your heart

One of these days 

If flickering, the spark stays 

Of something grand this could be the start.