Intoxicating

Intoxicating

Your very essence is so very intoxicating

to me that it causes me to become

drunk by 

your beauty as it is 

pumped from a pounding heart causing my 

pen to embark on a whole new verse that 

reads making love to you is all I want to do 

from when the sun goes down until it

rises up again then the night falls

and dark 

is all around the stars light our path like 

fireflies by the sand and the moon begins 

the glow showing us where we need to go 

as tears and sweat fall from our bodies 

become one lost in time our hearts pounding

hard beating out the melody of who and 

what we are while our souls are 

holding on 

to the others hand in hand dancing through 

the skies where no one has ever been searching 

for eternity through the ocean of forever

while we are here and now together

until the ink runs dry just as you and

I become lost in one another’s eyes

paralyzed by all that we will be at the

precibus of our life as you and I

where death 

has no meaning as life is the beginning

where the end never comes and time believes 

in nothing at all.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey

Texas Poet Laureate Nominee 2016-2020