Playing With Matches

If I could love you
As I have imagined you
Your beauty at last turned my way
With eyes to see in me
What my heart feels for you
And if this can be felt
From a silent distance
How much more
When too close for words

How often have I lain alone
Darkness shrouding
Save for the thought of you
In stillness
A feeling come over me
Exquiste
Ephemeral
As if bathed in the chimera of your spirit
Like the first breath of spring
If but for a moment so
Time stopping
At the touching of our souls

Can you not feel it

There is a weightlessness
A bouyancy of life
When lost in thought of you
As I long to be lost in you
In seeing your smile
Meant only for me
Because of me
Drawing me
That I might dare to touch
You who I have longed to hold

Speak any word in kindness to me
And it shall be music
But truer still
Speak with your eyes
And mine shall answer in kind
For there is a knowing without words
Though words will say a thousand things
But in that gaze our souls will dance
For love is as fire
And I would dance with you
Within the flames
And be consumed

Look at me
And strike the match