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I could not hold on to you But oh...how hard I tried Excavated each forgotten chamber Of my heart To find some charm Some talisman To cast a spell And make you mine Some magic potion That would make your every night A “midsummer night’s dream” Where all is not what it seems And you are in love with ME Hanging onto my every word Infatuated with my every look Making love with your eyes I wake from the dream I could not hold on to you… I transformed myself daily Taking on different roles A lover A friend A mistress A poetess An admirer A dancer A seductress A saint Everything…. To find favor in your eyes To make you love me To make you make love to me I couldn't hold on…. Wispy as a dream Captivating as the Northern Lights You dance across my darkest night Coloring the fibers of my soul With hues of paradise Your beauty disrobes me And I lie down and gaze in awe Pressed against the ground I look up at you Imploring with my eyes Arms outstretched I invite… Wishing you’d flash down And caress every part With the rainbow colored fingers Of your fantasy Unleased on me Celestial loving making My senses etherealized By your other world eyes But the heavenly flirtation ends And I can’t comprehend Why I couldn't hold on to you… You...my North Star My desires guided by the light But she's reflected in your starry eyes And you start to fall Become her shooting star Crashing into the stratosphere You burn as you enter Her atmosphere Blazing your way through Friction bursting into flame You don’t stop Till you impact her body With force Fill her emptiness With the stardust Of your soul I could not hold on to you…. Through my fingers Through the cracks in my heart You slip Sliding carefully through Taking with you The best sentiments in me Drunk on my idolatry The nectar of my love consumed Yet still glistening on your lips The sweetest I could provide It made you stay for a while Every tomorrow’s dream And my every lover’s scheme Slipped with you through my fingers I could not hold on to you... I smile, my pondering through Refreshed by memory's drops of dew You’ll come back…You always do No one else knows how to pleasure you How to baby you, how to feed How to give you what you need Who hears your unspoken requests And answers before you speak No one can tempt like I do Make you a man all brand new I know it’s true I smile… You’ll return But when you do Oh sweet dream, sweet fantasy When you return... Will you be able to hold on to me? Eileen Manassian Ghali
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