I am so very much in love
With the idea of you;
My yearning for the company
Of my imagined reflection
On your character
Is incomparable.
How I’ve anticipated conversation
Outside of your reality!
How I happily remember
The feeling I inject
Into our times together.

I ache in longing
For the image of you;
Your perfect form
Excites me
As your touch cannot.
Your soft lips
Defied my true desire
And so, softly shall they meet mine
Forever more.
For passions imagined
(Even so vividly
As this radical dreamer’s)
Fade with every echo;
I may only pine for you
As I might want
For the mother-of-pearl coating
Of oil on water
To prove unyielding
To my gentle contact.