When I Closed My Eyes

And I ask you again Though you never listen Not to ask me again To close my eyes, darling and wait Because I lose you, and I ache or burn or both or not! I do not know, my love, but gasp in the rib For that moment, I’m lost And when I open my eyes To find you splashing your smile Stunned, I start too far To nudge you and urge you To search me and touch me Like I started, when we started That beginning of ours A fresh love and you’re too new I fought you with desperate eyes I fought my tears but not my fears I fought my peers, for you my dear I fought. FOUGHT . F-O-U-G-H-T with my teeth To keep you, but more to have you And I swore, I swear To keep my eye open, to keep you Ask me not, to close my eyes, my love You are too new, when I open them If you knew the torture, if only, my dove You’d perch on me and peck my eye Grain after grain, again and again But not that I close them, honey I don’t want again, to start seeking And chasing you and guessing when we rest, Panting, Skirting around – The hips of our your collage Vetting your kisses and teasing To swallow your tongue When I look your way You look that new Afresh I have to renew the vow Deep in my blood and I smell your heart And I want you again to be mine, and I wonder Where were you, honey When I closed my eyes And waited?