When you smile
It takes my breath away
Could you have been alive
Before today?
How could perfection
Like you exist?
I'll never tell you
I'm feeling like this
Let's go to Paris
Set adrift on love
Even if the boat tips
I'll never give you up
I love your orange flare
I love your short brown hair
With you everything's so clear
In your gentleness I'm ensnared
You're like powdered sugar
Sweet and light
Hidden in a jar
A secret delight
Yellow hot air balloons overhead
Lazily taking flight
Baskets tumbling down to earth
Cool dusk air inside
I'm so glad to have met you now
Mademoiselle Madeline

You say...
"Hate me."
I tried: ...I love you.
You say...
"Forget me."
I tried: ...I love you.
You say...*
"I am deeply in love with you"
I said...*
"Goodbye."
©Lily M Sky

I was the bird in a cage
who never got to fly freely,
too domesticated to even
fly away
on its own.