A Love Poem/ Happy Valentine's Day

To my Campus Crush

I saw her today,

and she walked up to me like an abstract painting

with brushes for fingertips,

and she breast-stroked this canvas shell of mine

an ocean blue,

an ocean blue that was as deep as her dimples,

and I felt like Captain Morgan,

so I pirate-dived into them,

hoping to find way to that intoxicating treasure

she called a smile,

stealing a glimpse of something this beautiful has never felt so much like a crime,

so i prayed for freedom for my misdemeanor,

but I fell captive by the handcuffs in her eyes,

I never saw them coming,

the justice in her eyelids was enough,

so I asked for mercy,

and she had mercy,

we lingered, like seconds during sunsets,

She is my muse,

and as we departed one another's lives like summer days,

I knew I was different,

It was as if she took gravity with her,

and I was left there floating with the residue of her presence

without training wheels or a map,

or maybe I was stuck still,

in a state of perplexed perpetual motion gravitating toward  my next class,

which was some planet a galaxy over yonder,

but I don't need to tell you she was breath-taking like my savior's star,

I saw her today,

and we shared words like old friends do at reunions,

she refreshed my soul, 

so I borrowed half of her heart and placed it in the whole of my left eardrum hoping 

she & I would start resonating in cut time

because I can't hold this rapture in my chest for you any longer

-TJ