The rapture imparted <br />By your tender smile <br />And blue inviting eyes <br />Is astonishing and consuming! <br />What man could kiss your mouth <br />And not be lost for eternity <br />With love for you? <br />What man who ever felt <br />Your warm breath upon his chest <br />Could do anything less <br />Than breathe heavy sighs thereafter <br />Whenever you escaped his sight? <br /> <br />I haven’t desired you for an afternoon, <br />I want more than a rendezvous <br />In an hotel room, <br />More than slowly removing your skirt <br />One time as excitedly and nervously <br />As a child on his first day at school: <br />I want to kiss the nape of your neck <br />For a never-ending mystical epoch, <br />I want to hold your breasts <br />Like a saint cleansing his soul <br />Touching holy water! <br /> <br />You think I speak insanely <br />Like a drunkard inflamed with wine! <br />You laugh like I’ll forget these words <br />Tomorrow when I’m sober! <br />As long as you walk in this world <br />As an intoxicating woman <br />With movements so elegantly graceful <br />As to enslave the attention <br />Of both men and women, <br />I’ll never be sober! <br />I’ll always be a raving madman <br />Falling at your feet <br />In fits of desperate infatuation!<br /><br />Uriah Hamilton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-intoxicating-woman/
