My humming bird heart <br />beats for you <br />faster still with you in sight; <br />but you my flower <br />elude me. <br /> <br />I flutter <br />mid-air in flight <br />above other flowers <br />but no nectar drips from my beak's visit; <br />no matter how far I plunge <br />toward some flower's-center <br />it's not yours, and I retreat. <br /> <br />I pause, <br />flutter away <br />without that sweet juice of yours <br />I crave. <br />Possessing it is my Obsessions' Obsession. <br /> <br />Nothing deters my eye <br />from my flower-mission; <br />neither cat <br />nor rival bird <br />challenge me <br />when they espy my determined ire, <br />as I put my sharpened beak on display, <br />exhibiting to them my humming bird speed <br />and my reckless need. <br /> <br />No, they shrink <br />away <br />with second thoughts <br />and leave me to my nectar quest. <br /> <br />Some flowers are beautiful, <br />but none so beautiful as yours; <br />this is set in me for all time- <br />even if I, <br />nectarless, <br />become weak and falter- <br />no longer able to fly <br />and plunge spiraling to the ground; <br /> <br />I will have you my sweet <br />or no nectar at all.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nectar-sweet/
