My Knight

My Knight

I opened up the book of love

And found you pressed within

Magnified the details and found

My name tattooed on your skin

There were dragons on your shoulders

Flanking a knight on splendid steed

I gazed into your sea blue eyes

My body flushed with need

“What does this mean?” I asked

My palms pressed to the book

“That I should be so discomposed

From a photo and one look?”

I replaced the treasured tome

Back upon its dusty shelf

I knew I wouldn’t lose the dream

For I had lost myself

Back in the ordinary world

With its dearth of fantasy

Foolishly I searched for you

And hoped you searched for me...

Then one day in the coffee shop

I turned and you were there

You felt my scorching look

And met me stare for stare

Light and color swirled round

As I fainted to the floor

Awoke with a summer wind

Warming my heart and core

My knight knelt before me

Desire washed me in a flood

He ministered my injuries

Dabbing acrid drops of blood

“You’ve returned to us,” he said

And he scooped me from the floor

“I’ll take you home and care for you,”

And he whisked me through the door--

I opened up the book of love

Now written on your page

We are entwined forever

Together always, age to age