If I was given a dime 
every time I looked into your smoky gray eyes, 
wishing you were the tac in my toe, 
my Nubian panther in the night, 
serenading me with the low growl 
of your jungle madness, 
I could buy you the key  
to my emerald city. 
Imagine we were two leaves 
on a sycamore tree on the corner of State and Maine, 
becoming one as we fall with the seasons. 
I’ve never felt as alive as I do now 
- except when I’m dying in your arms, 
wrapped in your down blanket, 
buried in your scent. 
You are the raindrops blasting on my window pain 
- a testament to the stormy nature of our relations, 
but the calm always comes soon after the storm. 
A love poem 
sways to its own rhythm, 
throwing caution to the wind 
of desire, escalating  
to something indefinable, 
something uncompromising, 
something real.