And You, My Love, The Oxygen

Your eyes the sunrise and the sunset

The beginning and the end

Where in between I trace the maps of your face

with my thoughts.

Your lips the peaches

that seek my mouth

And I eat delightfully with no end

Until I'm hungry again.

Your hair the tidal waves,

the sun-kissed waters

where I swim aimlessly

towards the calmer oceans of your skin.

Your neck the temples,

the secret walls that listen to my poetry

And I pray and prey

Until I am holy and wholly consumed.

And you, my love, the oxygen

The air that fuels these very words

And still you wonder

why I breathe you in like clockwork.