I won't do that

by Beth - Scorpio

I want to tell you 
You affect me
but I slice my tongue on the words
corpulent edges
and I am reduced to staring at you dumbly 
tasting the bitter tang of words
unspoken.

I want to touch you
in wicked wanton ways
but my hands are cold as 
ice
and I cannot bare the thought
of you flinching beneath my
fingers.

I want to possess you
I am obsessed by the 
look  that hovers but an eyelash breadths
away from the front of 
your pretty blue eyes. 
It whispers to me as I sleep
and haunts my days
as I wonder how it would feel
to slide my hands beneath your skin
and make you dance.

I want to own you
I want your heart to sing
hymns in my honour
chanting my name like a mantra
over and over again
until it’s very sound is like static.

But I won’t ever love you,
No, 







I could never do that.

Birth sign: Scorpio
Date created: 2005-01-17 20:09:22
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:45
Poem ID: 70487

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