you speak to me –

only with your eyes –

simple glance my way,

sensational as the shiver that a whisper brings…

so gracefully,

into my thoughts,

you settle in –

wrap the everything you are

around the all of what I am;

(only skin can understand close).

and while I may be nestled in

my barricade of –

survival,

you oh so effortlessly –

(leaves understand inability)

pull apart my walls of self-defense –

deconstruct my self-destruction…

compelling –

you are –

enticing me to fly on wings of possibility –

but I sit idle –

unable to escape from my cocoon –

(what is more splendid than butterfly wings?)

and watch,

what could be,

walk emphatically away!