your dark eyes have haunted me
ever since I first saw your face.
insatiable, smoldering, unfocused
I think, like an ant beneath a glass,
I would have burst into flames if you had looked directly at me.
I kept that photograph
and now that you're gone,
I admire you endlessly,
and long to be burned.
Jun 22, 2017
Jun 22, 2017 at 9:02 PM UTC
your dark eyes have haunted me
ever since I first saw your face.
insatiable, smoldering, unfocused
I think, like an ant beneath a glass,
I would have burst into flames if you had looked directly at me.
I kept that photograph
and now that you're gone,
I admire you endlessly,
and long to be burned.
Summer, 2017