Athena
You sleep ashore with longing eyes wide,
Consciously still to swell with the tide.
Late night before the endless, black sea,
I found you wavering there for me.
But lost you against the sky above,
And woke up mournfully in love.
Sunrise I found you in the garden, streaming,
With flowers in your hair, sprawled out and beaming.
You were warm like skin in summer rain;
We kicked across the fields you reign.
You seized my hand; my head still spins,
My love, you teem to merely exist,
And conquer means to infinite ends.
I take you in like roots take up rain,
Like a needle pricks an untapped vein,
Like a candle strips a savage flame.
You are the absolute ecstasy for which I distend,
The sun to which I tirelessly bend.
And I lust so much it burns me up;
When you see that dreams are not enough,
In a garden alluring, obscure, and lush—
The forbidden will awaken upon our touch.
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9/5/14
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