Moment ..

You look into my eyes ... and

I am drowned in the depth of a placid lake.

The way you tuck that forlorn tendril behind my ear,

push a wisp gently with the back of your palm

and plant a kiss on my forehead ...

a river within me pulses and surges up

to be one with you!

You hold my face in your cupped palm

and keep staring almost with a feeling of reverence,

touch the tip of my nose with a strange awe

as if I might dissolve ... and

my senses get filled with

the dizzying fragrance of wild tuberose,

the aquamarine sky swoops and dives within me.

I talk to you with all my excitement and urgency

but you just witness the movement

of my lips and evolution of my emotion,

and murmur absentmindedly ‘poetry in motion’...
I feel a wild fire inside the hollow of my bones

and a chill of pink blue ice within my veins.
You say I am your princess ... and

I try to fathom the shivering

that rises up from the soles of my feet.

A cactus flower blooms within me

your  fingers, my fingers …

A part of my logical brain cries out ‘you are insane!’

But I push my face against your chest

knowing with stubbornness that I wouldn’t let go

of this moment!