Imaginings

I have been falling

for quite some time, my arms

pinwheeling madly through

blue, blue skies; forever

have I waited, forever have I

prayed to meet the tangle

of your distant eyes, to

see the lips that stretch and

slip and smile, to recognize the swell

of skin over bones.

I have dreamed of you;

you move as in water, slow

languid, the thin lick

of summer's tongue on the icy

snow; your voice so angelic

the air shatters with force;

I woke with tears on my cheeks

and the taste of bitter

impossibility searing my tongue.

I have loved you so much

my heart yearns to be free of the

weight, the cold icy chill of being

trapped in fire; you who have

never looked twice my way who might

love me, love me, if you'd only 

met me, if you'd only look into my eyes,

if you'd only saw me through

the endless, endless sea of imaginings.