Love in Silence

By: Lesley

I watch you from a distance..it’s the safest way...
as you subsist in your world, not so self-assured,
the ground beneath your feet succumbing to the weight
of all that is within you...
...and yet your back is straight.

You wish to be a scourge in this world of yours...
to level the sanctimonious constraints of those
who surround you and decimate those who negate you
and yet you are the elan vital which saves me
from the banalities of my world.

I long to see myself through your eyes...
to see my skin glistening in your immense heat,
to feel myself through your touch and feel
my malleable skin being shaped into submission,
to taste and take in the desire I exude
whenever you are near enough to take hold of.

For one ephemeral moment you belonged to only me,
a tragic representation of what might have been
had I the audacity to say “I love you”,
and you the presence of mind to will it of me.