Heavy Metal

I wanted to write you something cute,

like the hundreds of poems and prose that I've written before,

But I couldn't do it just yet.

I think maybe it's too new, you're too new,

To me.

I have mainly seen you smile, and doing happy things

which, I love seeing, but that means I could maybe only think

You are always happy. 

But, I feel something from your eyes, and once, 

Just once, I heard your voice.

And like a powerful heavy metal song played over the most beautiful sonata,

Something inside of me exploded and reacted without my participation.

Raw energy blasted out and then fell over soft velvet creme

With sinful, vanilla and chocolate icing. That was you.

I've learned over time what this means.

It could mean nothing and be part of that dream I had 

When I was a kid. 

Something about love being like a leafy-willow tree, beside a calm river

on a Spring evening. 

Or it could be the ragings of the experienced lover inside

Wanting to cross any barrier to experience you, to feel you, smell your scent,

Taste you, and move the Universe to make the meaning of your smile be - me, 

Just Once.

It's possible I'll never know.

I'll maybe never know what it means to be inside you, 

Your head, your heart, your mind. 

But that explosion that happened, was because of you,

And that means something. What? Time answers that question, always. 

To see the world as you do, feel your past, heavy on your shoulders, 

You heaving to lift it up for those you love, 

Going with the stream, as you say.

Looking for that break, that emotional break.

Yeah.