By ZoE
Date: 15 August 2000

Thrill Of The Chase

I want to write something you'd like or understand
I could lean over and let you look down my shirt
but I don't think you care about my chest
or my hips curving like an S
you silence me because somehow I'm not used to waiting
and I get impatient and I move on
but I am stuck on you
cannot stop watching your smooth turns
the way you could never be anything less than valuable
and still we could never put a price on you
you speak like an all-knowing savior and everything you say
rolls through me melting me like butter
there is peace everywhere when you speak and I slip past the knife
and come to love your skin that isn't perfect
and I keep watching you as if my eyes were on the wheel
making everyone feel so important
but no one will carry your burdons and I keep watching
your aries steps like a door opening in front of my eyes
the way you love- the thrill of the chase
and I melt behind the grind of the emergency break
that coulod never fail, because nothing could fail
as long as your around
sending calm and the lightness of autumn breezes over
hard liquor words like kisses
you kill me each time I see you perhaps not as fond of me and
unsuspecting of the devotion to your calm I feel, because I need
it more and I would steal to touch it for one minute and
feel ok for a year, because going on Road trips far away from you
leaves me lonely and cautious and forgetful of your easy freedom
tires treading swiftly, I'd follow you anywhere
and settle for shotgun if you couldn't be inside me
and I'd understand
watch you be my anything even if you weren't mine you could
drown out some of this self doubt and let me hold you like a baby
for awhile until I could make you feel the way you take me over
and bring me closer to home than I've ever felt in this house
I am watching you
lips cracking and chapped with lack of patience
I am watching you
loving- the thrill of the chase

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