STARLESS EYES

Shakespeare Created the Tragedy in My Loving You

Though I cannot stare at you long enough to remember your exact eye shade or count the number of eyelashes - their curves and trajectories-
Though I scrape my kneecaps together and drag them across the floor to avoid remembering how your touch is engraved on my cheeks like two soaring birds mid flight upon the horizon that is the reddened sunrise of my face
Though I kiss the sunset with open palms bleeding from half moons left by my fingernails digging into its trenches
Though I ache and ache and ache with a mouth open swallowing a fist of I love you's and a chest reverberating with the hurricane and lightning of a monsoon echoing inside of a tavern of needs so explicitly vulnerable they are erotic to my independent mind

Through all of this I can give you my body not as compensation but as relief
With words spoken I cannot tell you that the freckles along your arms and cheekbones have become rollercoasters that leave my heart in a frenzy
Nor that letting you hold my hand was like having a million high voltage bolts in my brain as I fought to electrocute the butterflies kissing my lips open into a smile

But with my hands I can create sirens that anchor talons into your sails and words that leave sailors blushing as I go
With my mouth I can reenact the Bard's words - let me be the blushing pilgrim aching to soothe the fair temple I have ransacked with my unholy touch
With my eyes I can whisper of the tempest that ravages my heart as we touch and of how I wonder at my survival when touching you makes me touch the stars and rearrange them into patterns resembling the beats of our hearts and my mouth is trying to work out how to swallow the apothecary's poison

I wish I loved you with words and not only with my body because my body can be torn but my mouth will not pry open and when i let my heart lead me to you I forget all star-crossed lovers are doomed to begin with

A/N: this is for the wonderful CurlyStraight because even though it has a hectic couple of days her kind words gave me the motivation to write