The New Heroin

How can I make her understand
Sometimes her words bite
Like a strike from
The back of her hand.
There is little more else
I can do
I have a desire that must be assuaged
And as it has been through the ages
So love shall stand
Undefeated today.

Does she not recognize
Sometimes a look from
Those coal fired eyes
Can cripple.
Like the carress
Of a python I am entwined
In her gaze, hypnotized
And agape for all
Who care to see me.
I attempt my escape
But am embroiled so deeply
In her,
I am running away for two.

My words cannot tell her
In my dream of clear cool water
She is always
Her mothers daughter
Now in her I am orphaned
Ordained into the ranks
Of the ever hopeful and foolish
Who have queued for the chance
To be hopelessly lost
And I will know her regardless
And pay any cost
For she is the source
Of my life.