As You Seep From My Eyelids

In some cases, by loving too much, we destroy the object of our affection.

You are a perfect piece of art, an un-replicatable masterpiece;

As if carved from ice, you glow, diamond-like, in the sunlight.

Your perfectly sculpted lips on mine make me shiver pleasantly,

A sweet, refreshing, relief from the stifling stagnation of life.

But as I hold you closer, you begin to melt, to disappear.

I pull your face to mine until they again meet,

But my rougher, ruder lips wear at the

Curve of your mouth, warming it,

Disfiguring it in my desire.

The tighter I grip you,

The more quickly

You evanesce--

Lines of salt

Drip from

My eyes,

Marring,

Ruining

Your

Beauty.

In

De-

Spair

I

Ho-

ld

You

To

My

Che-

St

Un-

Til

You

Be-

Come

No-

Thi-

Ng

But

Tears.

Author's Note

I intended for the intensity to build gradually.

Reviews

[Judy Ponceby]

a teardrop expressing the very wistful tragic longing of lost love. Beautifully formed, I feel you captured the gradual intensity you wanted to. The wistfulness and desperate feeling of loss very evident. I feel you are developing that ability to bring deep emotion from your readers very well. Another awesome write.

[Poeticadia]

Love the form... the melting ice sculpture... and the fragility, the vulnerability of the 'mastepeice' that is destroyed by touch and familiarity. It's as if those tears at the end are pulling at the surface tension, on the point of falling, dissolving completely. Excellently well-expressed and formed!

[Lily Mae]

This is just perfect.. I love the work and the display of words..it flows well and surely builds as it goes.. A favorite for sure..xx

[i.am.the.sun.]

wow. the asymptote of words at the end, making the read speed up, almost run down the page to keep up with the words is perfect. my heart started beating like if i didn't catch up the words would get away and i wouldn't get to read the end! oh and how i wanted to read it! haha this is something i wish i had written, just beautiful. favorited for sure. "the more you squeeze the more it slips away" good stuff mon frere.