New Love

I think your kiss has the power to heal me.

You make the scars and the pain fade away.

I long to know what you feel like, your arms wrapped around me tight.

Your scent lingering on my disheveled bed sheets after you've gone. 

I long to know what it's like to wake to the hazel in your eyes. 

To feel your calloused hands on the bare skin of my thigh, 

Soft and gentle as a butterfly's wings would be your caress. 

Your velvet tenor singing me to sleep. 

Your love my safety when the water gets deep.

I long to feel these things with you,

to belong to you,

to be trapped in the snares of your hypnotic gaze.