To love tastes like sweetness Fresh strawberries And few drops on skin It feels like grassy green hills Starry night skies And murmured words Carried across state lines Letters bundled in brown string Lavender stems And wax buttons To love looks like her eyes Mountains and earth and life It looks like sunflowers And bonfires And nervous car rides Sometimes I close my eyes And her voice is there At the back of my mind Her laughter playing over and over And I think to myself This This is what it feels like But tongues these days Were made to be held And I’ve made it a hobby To keep to myself And the moments I steal Between thought and dreaming I spend realizing that many could do So much better than this But love looks a lot Like who she is to me Whether it’s not the right time Or it may never be And despite my desire To face the world on my own The sound of her voice Never leaves me alone And I find myself in bed Lying awake through the night Smiling at her humor And thinking she might Think of me too And I don’t know why it happened Why I can’t erase her from my mind But I find I don’t want to That I couldn’t if I tried That every second of her presence Every moment in time I spend craving more of her Always more of her