Breathless

Little by little it slips away
So mildly but so quickly
Your face smiles before me and I can't feel my feet
My lips go numb and my legs start to shake
As you open your arms to embrace me
Frozen in this trance I hide my shaking hands behind my back
They're no match for the heartbeat that thumps incessantly at my chest
Those eyes
That smile
The tips of your fingers on my skin
It sends me to another world and I am lost
Spinning wildly, blindly out of control
Until you let me go and say goodbye
And reality says hello-
It is then that I remember to breathe....

M

(October 15 2008)