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Sweet, Cosmic Valentine
Jealousy was your perfume.Over valleys and vines, your eyes extended,all that effort to catch me out doing nothing,not a kiss had left my lips,no soul had breached my borders.All that I was belonged to you,like I’d always said,of all the pretty things on earth, nothing thrilled me like you did. Venus smiled, you exhaled, and…
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Lip Gloss and Perfume
Roses wrapped around bare wrists,wistful sighs of sweet vanilla,wild passion, wrapped in jasmine,sending your senses spiralling,and your hands wandering. I am a Princess in your favourite dress,glossy lips with your name painted upon them,an endless echo of soft sighs,cinnamon kiss,enigma ingénue,unsophisticated but irresistible. Our eyes meet across a crowded room,and suddenly we’re all alone.You are…
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Oh Yes, She Does
Many moons had been mesmerised by our memory,hanging like docile mobiles in the sky,awestruck as they watched us fall in love,idealising the imperfections that disappear inside a kiss.Remembering the sight of you, smiling up from sheets full of scandal,I sigh, just as enchanted as the moon, by all that you are. Let me write one…
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Shooting Star
A star fell as the moon made eyes at me,and I thought about you.You, so faraway,fretting and fiddling with your fringe, somewhere in my fantasies,that faceless shape I ache for when I leave my dreams and land back in reality. You. I know you’re out there,somewhere,walking the same streets,whipped up in the same winter wind…