In a Certain Light

In a certain light,
You look like paradise
And when the summer air
Dances through your hair
It makes me think of Eden

With its two rivers,
And all the sweet allures of vice
And in a certain way,
You make me think of truth,
Like when the wandering moon
Looks into our room
And sees you pale and naked,
With summer in your hair

And you play on your iPhone,
And yawn like a kitten,
And smile at me sideways, innocent
And I am struck by a sudden thought
I am not as worthy as I should be
To stay and watch you turn your face,
With wild and unwholesome grace.

By now I have lost the trail
Within the hollows of your back,
Within the forests of your eyes
Within a sudden and wild supposition
Perhaps my gazes now transpire,
Among the shadows of your brow.

From a certain point of view
I find your body entirely new.
And no geography can speak
Of the throat and chin and lip and cheek
And shoulder, belly, wrist and thigh
New territories for the eyes.

I wonder if I would find the strength
To lose sight of your width and length,
The shores and bays of your smile from end to end
And search where none has been before
And make my restless and furtive start
Upon the oceans of your heart.

And in the pleasure of your soul.