Is This Love? Poem by Kevin Patrick II

Is there really chemistry working between us or is this just a science experiment that's going to explode? I'm not sure I'm ready for the clean up when the results will inevitably take there toll still I'm willing to fail if it means that I gain The memory of bliss when the two of us kissed


You wormed your way into me with your eyes
So dark they made light out of a black hole
There was a sweetness that was enticing
It gave me cavities for a taste for your pleasure
Your picture caused a car crash of reason
There was a magnet attached to your soul

We played Russian roulette on our first date
tied red bandanas around our foreheads
Went several rounds, taut with hyper tension
sweat percolating from our every pour
Watching each other in cupids stand off
Waiting for the bullet, just to see if we clicked



Now we meet as if we're espionage agents
Subtle glances in public hint our psychic attraction
Our eyes like semaphores wave flags of passion
We speak in codes that only we can decipher
We hide behind faces know one else sees
But you see me as someone I wish I could be


Sometimes we drive beneath the cloak of night
Find a spot to park, by some nature trail
Holding each other beneath a sea of stars
We talk about their light takes millions of years
And how there dead, like one day we will be too
But right now we are here in each others arms

And that the meaning of life is this moment we have


I haven't felt this way since I was 20 something
A mad mixture of hormones on loan from puberty
The feeling of butterflies and cat o nine tails
Paralyzing my body with anxiety and euphoria
With thoughts of you leaving me on cloud 9
But waiting to fall without a parachute to save me


Maybe there is chemistry between us
I barely passed it in school
But I will never get a pass on you