LOVE Poem: SIREN SONG, by Jake Turner

I would say “I love you”
but the implications of such
would drown out all pleasure
Soaking heart’s fragile contract and
muddying these spontaneous words
yet to be written

So here I stand
trapped in your gaze
as the blood rises higher
sloshing through my veins
But I will not be overcome
by my desire for you
This is not love,
merely a forethought of
promises that may be broken
and hate that may be kept

I say, as if these flimsy statements
could be my raft, floating
through the rapids of passion
saving me from the cold water below
But, as far on the shore as I may crawl
your tide will claim me eventually
and I shall become enraptured
in your baleful flow
whisked away to the vast
and deadly sea of intertwining lives

No matter how hard I wish
for a safe and passing path
there is no resisting this silent siren song
dripping from your skin
But until my ship crashes
upon your jagged rocks
I shall try with all my might
to resist the reasonless pull
of the words
“I love you”

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