Burning Desire

Her eyes, like thunder
Her whisper, tears asunder
Her lashes, they plunder
My attention,
My dimension,
My tension.

Her arms, they enclose
Her hands, they compose
Her fingers, they chose
My sanity,
My humanity,
My vanity.

Her well-being is my freeing,
My heart is boiled with meaning,
My desire burns, so demeaning,
Her glance, so stealing
My stance, so annealing

But with my lust, like fire,
With my need, so dire,
I turn away, without reason,
And my hunger faces treason,
Can’t you see, I have traded you,
For the world and my surrounding view
But is this what I really want?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Brown Avatar
August 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Bilal. Wishing you the best always on your writing endeavors. Love, Carol
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August 9, 2010 at 4:11 AM
Congrats Bilal on having your poem being featured on the Poetry Soup home page this week. Please keep your creative caps on, let your poetry pen keep painting your poetry pads with colors of creativity. Thanks for sharing this with us and have a wonderful week ahead. Love always, Adeleke
Bien Avatar
August 8, 2010 at 3:40 PM
excellent write!! JB
Spence Sr Avatar
June 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM
I like the flow of this poem and the expressiveness of the words. The ironical twist in the end is interesting. I also like the use of the rhetorical question which brings it alive. Welcome to Poetry Soup and keep writing. Blessings, Joseph
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