My Muse

By Joshua Lefort

Love passes over me like a brush,

A psychic tingling that prickles my skin,

A whispered thought that I can’t make out,

An unexplainable warmth expelled through my pores.

In your presence, I can’t help but paint the sky

And dream of more as I wish upon a star.

Like water, you have no end nor beginning.

You are a timeless manifestation of life,

You are an embodied experience,

A film that cannot be tamed in a frame,

The pattering rain in sync 

With the rhythmic beat of life.

You’ve pleasantly taken over me

Like a tepid rainfall on a sun-drenched evening.

What I feel for you is unspoken but understood,

As if you had breathed life into my lungs and set my soul ablaze.

What I feel for you was bound to surface

Like a plume of magma oozing from my inner core,

Like the root system of a blossoming plant:

I’m your Lichtenberg flower.

To close my eyes in your embrace

Is to free-fall with the certitude 

That nothing else matters.

I can let go, knowing that in the end,

I’ll find my way back to you.

You fit into my enigmatic puzzle

Like the key to my ever-changing lock.

I’ve been struck with conviction

And need not more time nor prompts to tell you—

I love you.

By Joshua Lefort