Love Obsessed

Backstory

In keeping with the “feeling my feelings” theme of this year, my writing style has apparently returned to random freeform thoughts and emotions.  That means inspiration usually happens whenever and wherever I am, and I must find some way to get it written out so that I don’t lose the flow of my thoughts.  This poem happened in the back of a Lyft ride to a friend’s barbecue about a month ago, after a love song that was playing on the radio made me consider what love meant to me at that time.  It got a little dark as my writing often tends to do, but I ended up loving the result at the time.  So here it is the first poem I am willing to share publicly in years.

The actual Poem

I want to worship you,
I want to fall to my knees in prayer at the shrine of all things holy,
All things beautiful,
All things you.
I want to scream my words to my God and the gods of all others,
To thank them for gracing this undeserving, desolate universe with a soul as wondrous as yours.

I want to love you,
To serenade you with sweet words and toss flowers at your feet,
To carry you across field and plain,
To protect you from everything untoward and unclean.
I will never tire in my goal,
In my singular mission to idolize and revere you above all others, above all else.

I want to know you,
To know your every thought,
Every word,
Every need before even you do,
To know every inch of every layer of your skin,
And to be able to time every breath and every beat of your heart as my own for eternity.

I want you.
I want to love you.
To serve you and own you.
You are my obsession.
You plague my every waking moment and run rampant in my dreams.
You are my everything… and living for you will be the death of me.

K. Williams
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