You know, the smile that could charm the stripes off of a tiger, the black off of the board, and me out of my senses.
The Epidemic
By:Chasma DeLane
So.
I'm slurping stovetop noodles off of my steaming spoon and thinking of the way you kiss me.
Thinking about the way you tip my chin upwards slightly because I'm six whole inches shorter than you without my stilettos.
Considering the way you can still look as scorching white-hot when you're out of focus and all I can see are the lids of your eyes as you do when I spy on you from afar.
I'm pondering if you're pondering about the way I kiss you back.
Or if you're understanding the fact that if I were physically able to be a piece of your anatomy, I would. Even if that would mean breaking my worst habit, dragging my feet, because I know that it would drive you crazy.
And the noodles are now colder than the ice in my tea, but I'm ruminating the fact that when you embrace me the world as I know it disappears completely and when we break apart it comes back again, only worse.
I'm wondering if you feel that intense electrical connection between us when your hand entwines in mine.
And knowing that you can see the anticipation rush to my cheeks when you lean down to snatch my lips with yours and how you thieve my breath with just one flash of your brilliant smile.
That smile.
I can recall the way that your radiant eyes emit invisible, scorching sparks when that damn smile spreads to them. Infecting them like an unstoppable plague, contaminating your eyes as your whole being contaminates me. The epidemic of passion.
In fact, I think that's what I'll call this. This thing between us. The epidemic that starts with a kiss and leads to the complete submersion in the sickly-sweet river of pure, undeniable love.
And now, meet my good friend: reality.
Reality reminds me that I'm slurping slate-cold Ramen noodles off of a spoon thinking about someone who isn't here, who isn't mine, and who isn't interested.
(By the way, if you EVEN consider stealing this poem,
or any others that you read on MY page, I will know,
and I will get the law involved.)
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