Love

Something that grows from the pit of your stomach

like a bud of infatuation

and spreads through your veins,

pumped by the fullest heart

through every inch of your body.

　

It hazes your brain with a peaceful calm,

sending a rush of soothing warmth across you

and adds a glow to your skin, a glint in your eye,

and cushions you with a cloud of protected notion

that wont be broken.

　

A face of contented decoration.

A smile.

Like a tattoo that cant be removed

But it comes from within,

even when not visible it encompasses everything around.

　

Each word spoken, like an artistic poem.

Enriching all that surrounds you,

and all that can be seen in your world is beauty.

　

A kiss. A gift that can be treasured like gold

and consumed endlessly with such satisfaction

but still a want for more.

　

An everlasting embrace would be a life well spent

and a dream all at once that relinquishes emotion to its weariest form

but brings it to life in the very same breath.

　

The intertwining of fingers,

such a simple gesture,

connecting two forms like pieces of a puzzle

and making complete sense to abstract.

　

The deepest place that can not be described with the tools of our language

and could never be reached in this physical world,

that is where love lives.

By Kiri Gray ©