By Jyni Verma
I wish my body could merge into yours,
I wish I could swallow
The poetry you inspire
Carve your name into
The veins of my wrists
Let love seep into
My scarlet blood,
Devotion
Where there was once pain.
Your name itself is poetry on my lips
Sweet syrup coating my tongue, I swallow
Every last drop
Slow,
Deliberate.
Fulfilling my very purpose
My love for you spilling over, dribbling
Down my chin, I can't help but
Write about you, use
Every last drop of ink to pen down your legend.
The first person to believe in god must have been loved by you
The first person to drop to their knees
Must have felt the caress of your fingers.
Isn't worship just an inability to comprehend joy?
Blended with the absolute determination to experience it
Prayer,
Simply a way to explain away the magic
The kind which courses
Through your veins.
You leave an ache within me
Every moment we are apart
Your soft fingers in my rough palms, skin
Blending into skin, an enchantment
In your eyes, desperation
In your mouth.
I bow my head
At the altar of our love
As your gentle kisses adorn my feet
I lay there, weeping
Overcome
By the magnificence of your existence
The sheer power
In your touch
A tiny sparkle in your honey brown eyes,
The sun
Pales in comparison
To the incandescence of your laugh
Your body sculpted from stardust, handpicked
From heavenly abodes.
My name has never sung its syllables
Until it nestled
Into your throat
Finding its way home in your soft lips
As I find my way home in your arms, I forever
Admire their strength
And softness
Let your kisses decorate me, at last
I belong to my body
Now that it's been blessed
By your delicate tongue.
I've never felt such exhilarating passion
Or pure, unadulterated joy
A sigh
Of peace
Hadn't ever escaped my lips
Until they found their way to yours.
The soft light
Of your radiant eyes,
Kindness personified, illuminating
The lines of my palm.
I watch you
With helpless admiration
Love too immense to be contained
Love too intense to be expressed enough,
It could never be enough, I could
Never stop
Feeling hopelessly devoted
To you.
Taking in your breathtaking beauty
Counting the moments
Till our breaths
Can sync up
Again.
Let gasps escape from my mouth to yours,
Quick breaths and
Deep sighs, you
Have swept me off my feet
Taken me dancing
Across the stars.
A halo-like glow peeks
Out from behind you
The radiance of your smile blinds me, I can't help
But kneel
Before you, lick
The ambrosia
Off every inch
Of your tender skin
Swallow your nectar
Like it's the elixir breathing
Life
Into my lungs.
I'd run across hell
To leap into your arms
Swim across the deadliest ocean,
I would bite
Into every apple
From the gardens of Eden,
Turn around
As I walked away, Orpheus
Just knew what all lovers know-
That the word of a god means nothing
That no almighty could ever compare
To a quiet moment spent with you
Smiles shared and glances exchanged,
Death could not do us part
In this life
Or the next.
How could love this pure
Ever be a sin?
I laughingly offer my head if it is
There is no price too big to pay
For the gift of getting to love
You,
For the honour of being loved
By you.
I'd let the earth consume me whole
Swallow an entire inferno
Use my last breath to crawl
To you, if it meant another glimpse
Of you, another minute
Holding you.
I know I simply parrot
What the poets have said
For millennia prior
What the singers wept for,
What the artists died for.
But only I have the honour
Of saying it
About you
Only I bask
In your eternal glow, relish
The nectar of your flower.
So this poetry, the
Hymns in your honour
Matter more to me than
The most magnificent artwork, a portrait
Of our love, my offering
To our altar, the prayer
Of loving you diminishes
Any god that could ever be and
My utterance, my screaming
Your name is
My muse,
My magnum opus.