Love you like a poem

We all reveal bits and pieces of ourselves in how we dress, speak and through our associations and body language. Sometimes we could benefit from an interpreter to ensure we get it right, not wrong.

So parsing a person is a thing, right? Maybe. This poem honours my one true love and how much depth she continues to reveal.

Love you like a poem

In the hip pocket of my memory

is an image of you

cat-stretched and golden

in the warm morning light.

Like a poem I read you

over and over

from opening line

to parting verse.

And on my lips

the taste of each word

lingers.

I love you like a poem.

I return to you

and your rhythm;

my feelings and my thoughts

rhyme with yours.

I love you slowly,

one syllable at a time

one image after another,

world upon world,

kiss upon kiss.

Dawn slips under the blind

caressing

your supine form

while I dance in the limelight 

of your sea-green gaze.

Phillip

Sydney

20 November 2012