Never Have I Ever

This is another piece I did for my school unit in poetry. Hopefully it can get across the dual relationship between love and wishing to die to attain that love.

Aphrodite lies upon your shoulders

Bowing my knees

And pulling on my heart with strings of steel

Unbreakable by any army;

 Never have I ever wanted to die in battle

 

In your eyes blue oceans wave

Ripping up my roots

And dragging me out to your azure waters,

Crashing me against the jagged rocks of infatuation;

Never have I ever desired to drown

 

Your lips like Grecian art were conceived

By the ravishing red rose

And bloodshed of men too weak to love you;

Never have I ever wished for a poisonous kiss

 

Little brown freckles lay upon your porcelain skin

Like kisses from Apollo himself,

For even he reveres your ancient beauty;

Never have I ever felt this sickening lust

 

 

A galaxy of great golden suns

Dance around your ageless guise,

I get lost in the blanket of stars

And the sea of mystery in each glowing strand;

Never have I ever wanted to age with the moon.

 

I see your face every waking hour

And marvel at it like the sun

Burning my eyes through and through,

 

But alas,

For no longer do your eyes meet mine;

You’re as blind as the frame that traps you,

Able to exist only in the time and space

Granted to you by your father;

 

For this:

Never have I ever wanted to take my life

-such as you did-

And live in your world

Forever able to witness

Your undying visage