Athena

You sleep ashore with longing eyes wide, Consciously still to swell with the tide. Late night before the endless, black sea, I found you wavering there for me. But lost you against the sky above, And woke up mournfully in love. Sunrise I found you in the garden, streaming, With flowers in your hair, sprawled out and beaming. You were warm like skin in summer rain; We kicked across the fields you reign. You seized my hand; my head still spins, My love, you teem to merely exist, And conquer means to infinite ends. I take you in like roots take up rain, Like a needle pricks an untapped vein, Like a candle strips a savage flame. You are the absolute ecstasy for which I distend, The sun to which I tirelessly bend. And I lust so much it burns me up; When you see that dreams are not enough, In a garden alluring, obscure, and lush— The forbidden will awaken upon our touch. -- 9/5/14