The Heart Imagines too

You are a fantasy 

My eyes created, 

Like the ghosts I sometimes see at night, 

Whimsical at first sight, I saw you playing 

Light hearted, unburdened 

But relayed through my mind a nymph, air dancing, 

Elegant other-worldly,

 Next I heard your words 

And with them your story,

 Innocent but worried, 

Always anxious yet so easily comforted 

And though the avenues were different, 

I thought I heard in you, shared values 

Easy partnership

Next my nose took up its duty 

And found exuberance in that 

which you call undignified 

Eagerly I followed your scent 

Wherever you went 

And longed in the absence

 of your mist of intoxicant 

As my fingers first combed through your hair 

I was unprepared 

for the muse that overcame me, 

Let it move me, soft and subtle 

Through the points that left my boundaries muddled 

And now my fingers feel called for contact 

Desirous to dance to the soundtrack of your body 

In my inner ear the equilibrium 

Has lost its balance 

And now I stumble 

Always out of context 

My stomach settles only in proximity 

My discomfort limited 

by the times I’m near you 

My lips seem to believe they’ve been given new purpose 

To create a conduit 

Between my essence and your neck, 

Your jaw, lips, cheeks and shoulders 

Magnetic they leap to you, 

Simple universal physics 

I’m amazed you’ve not noticed. 

Thus it’s difficult my dear 

For I know it’s all imagined 

But I’d have to 

abandon 

My senses to treat you 

As anything less than 

my heart’s desire