Love Poem: Like You Mean It

Like You Mean It

Shoot, girl ...
          You spin my synapses like a sugar rush
                    The ways you look at me ...

Like I'm a schoolboy smitten with his teacher
          Who spent the weekend picking and arranging wildflowers
                    And just placed them on your desk ...

Like you're the young Clara
          And I'm the valiant and proud Nutcracker Prince
                    The Mouse King and his army, dispatched at my feet ...

Like you're Audrey Hepburn
          And I'm a lost kitten that you've saved from the rain
                    And tucked inside your coat ...

Like I'm the genie, magical
          That you've just rubbed from a lamp
                    And I must do ALL you ask of me, without question ...

Like I'm the Phantom of the Opera
          And you've finally come to the realization
                    That every note of every song, was for your aspect ...

Like I'm strawberry-caramel croissant pancakes
          With whipped cream and white chocolate drizzle
                    And you haven't eaten in days ...

The ways you look at me ...
          How you spin my synapses like a sugar rush
                    Shoot, girl ...

So love me like you MEAN it ...
          For anything less - anything short of passion's prize
                    Would be complete and utter ...

Tragedy.





~ 1st Place ~  in the "Love Me Like You Mean It" Poetry Contest, Julie Leigh Rodeheaver, Judge & Sponsor.