When I look at you

When I look into your eyes

My heart aches

In this way

As if my chest will explode

But it tightens

Muscle bound up around heart

Breath hitched at the lowest part of

Of my throat

Like stone holding back

Like a dam

The mastery of desire

Of pleasure

Of pure yearning

Because I’m afraid

Of how much more intense

Your fingers would feel

Not just grazing against mine

When I reach you something

Or when I tap your elbow

Because I fear

The way I would want you to touch me

Would be far greater a sensation

I’ve ever had from another

And that my heart would

Make my eyes grow wild

and that a frenzy

Of desire would connect

My aching heart to yours