A coffee, a talk, and a promise for another time.

A smile, laugh, and kiss, led to a long night.

Blinded by affections from the charms of a silver tongue, made me unaware of the baggage he had carried inside.

As he turned to leave, sunlight streaming in.

It was clear as day.

That I now had become a string tied to his belongings that he now carried away.

Thoughts turned inwards

To ponder self growth

Looking to the future

Idle plans brewing, eager to give birth

Ideas rushing up like boiling water

Threatening to overflow

Ink flowing free like colors in the wind

Filling pages as I go

a thousand miles from here,

where love's embrace lay,

was the only place i longed for.

a quiet ache,

as i watched the flame writhed.

hypnotic regression

of bodies entwined.

How your supple flesh beckoned to me,

like a pull that I could no more fight against like the necessity to breathe.

You were as gentle as a summer's breeze and as elegant as silk.

I struggled against my animalistic urges to consume you,

my fragile fangs throbbing in protest to my will.