Elucidating Questions

How can I tell the world I love you without it sounding foolish and childish

How do I explain that the sound of your voice takes me to a place I never knew I never knew until I found you

How do I explain that my heartbeat is connected to your heartbeat it doesn’t want to beat for anyone else

But your face and your eyes and your awkward little shuffle

And the way you fold in on yourself like a self conscious lily

But you’re so beautiful so I wonder why you fold like you do into you.

The way every word falls as though you agonised over it.

The way your hair falls or doesn’t when it’s long or short

The way it resembles the gold of the thread woven or the blackest plume of the raven

How your eyes hold the ocean on any day

Bright or grey

How your cheekbones curve perfectly and your body is so beautiful in its sinew and wrapping

How did you get so beautiful a wrapping

How did you not see it in the mirror

You’re so beautiful I can’t describe anything quite right

You’re so beautiful that no matter the light you just look so right

I love you your face your mannerisms your movement your folding your nerves your second guessing your confusion your love

I know I can’t have it,

But I love it.

The colour of the violets violet

The hood over your face.

You.

I love you.

I love you so much.