Circles

written by: Tamira Daniely,

edited by: Beles Abebe

glinting moonlight

strokes your face

I stand

you sit before me

on the edge of my bed

our knees tickle

& I smile

I love how at night

black skin looks violet blue

your round eyes

glimmer

boring into mine

I feel surrounded,

circled 

my breath coils

you whisper 

about the loops 

you could trace on me

my body 

aching to convolve

with yours

I imagine 

my head

               rotating

my toes 

               curling

as your hands encircle

my wrists...

     my waist...

           my throat...

tension 

so twisted and taut

caught and corkscrewed

I am left

a muddled mess of

half-formed, senseless thoughts

those piercing eyes

overpower mine

I gaze at the curve of 

your lips instead

breathlessly,

anxiously,

achingly,

I fall into a stupor,

tunnel vision

narrowed in on you

I inch closer

nothing is left but 

wanting to be enveloped 

by the waves of your love

like a gyre

we drown in each other

until I see stars brighter than

the moonlight in your eyes

I resurface 

in the rapture of these circles,

those 

dark

round 

eyes