My Eyes Follow You Like Your Shadow

 

My eyes follow you like your shadow

And like your shadow, I look away

When you turn to see from whence

Came the warm gaze that you feel

Burning holes between your shoulder blades.

I adore you from head to toe

As you come and as you go

All I want to do for eternity

Is to look at you as you wander

Aimlessly between night and day

While I fight to keep the hyenas at bay

 

I like to walk in the places you walk

Just to feel the dents made by your feet

In the raw muddy earth

Sometimes the insects that bite you

When I watch you scratch, I know

And I follow them to their lair

So they will never bother you again

When my eyes follow you, my nose

Tags along just to catch

A whiff of your fragrant breath

Dancing on the breeze when you laugh

 

And my ears suddenly start to dance

Because peals of laughter that you break

Open golden gates to heavenly sounds

And oh, such flapping makes a cacophony

That joins my hands to my feet

In a jigsaw of happy dancing

As if the very earth was prancing

That soon my lonely heart, with a sigh

For want of something better to do

Opens up in a warm embrace

And swallows you whole to make you mine.