Mars-Venus

I've never really loved anyone before you who could
Play with my hair and my mind
The way that you do
Who could guess what I'm thinking and follow my gaze
Through walls and down halls until we're lost in some horizon together
Kissing softly, lips pausing and posing and parting and
Closing to the time of the clock that ticks four minutes Behind

I've never really loved anyone before you who could
Stun me and out-run me
The way that you do
Who could interpret my silences so accurately I only speak when my
Lips are full-swollen brimming with things to say and
Adjectives that forever fall-short of your beauty

I've never really loved anyone before you who could
Touch me and move me
The way that you do
Who could pass me a mental note and cut into my thoughts
Like a lightning bolt slicing through the rest of my day and
Pushing me pulling me dragging me away
Into a swirling smear of color more brilliant than the sun we
Trip and we slip and I come so undone...

I've never really loved anyone before you who could
Undress me and untie me
The way that you do
Who could break my stride so beautifully that I
Trace every crack and
See the others and pity them for being so goddamned
Intact

Who could distract me and impact me and surprise me and
Revive me
Who could surround me so completely I don't know
Which way is up...

I've never really loved anyone,
Before you.