02.07.2016

I am on a mission tonight

To tell you how much I love you

Because it’s been far too long

Since I crudely drew that shy uncertain smile

That breaks like dawn

Upon this moonless dark night.

I am on a mission tonight

To speak to you in words I do not know how to utter.

I want to sit with you,

Hold your warm hands, like your heart,

To my heart,

Pour out to you

The things I could not have uttered.

I want to gaze into your deep kind eyes like, your soul

And watch them unravel my soul.

I am on a mission tonight

To brand your eyes as more than just deep,

Your soul as more than just kind.

I want to bury my head into a dictionary

And circle every word red

That reminds me of the magnificence that your magnificence is.

Red, because it is your favourite.

I am on a mission tonight

To talk to you

About that one movie you saw as a little kid

Which still echoes in every corner of your grown body.

I want to know you,

Know the dreams you had but gave up

Because ‘reality’ finally caught up to you

And know the dreams you had but never gave up

Even when reality managed to win the race.

I want to untangle you

Knot by knot, piece by piece

And see your bare soul,

And just. Keep. Looking.

I am on a mission tonight

To count the number of moles that encompass your beautiful body

Like stardust on a flawless canvas,

Like they are galaxies etched onto your perfect skin.

I want to memorize your stretch marks, your scars and their stories.

I want to learn

All that has made your body

Yours.

I am on a mission tonight

To lay with you

Under the stars, on wet grass

And find every nook and corner

Every untouched contour

And envelope it into mine.

I want to hold you,

To comfort you,

To caress you,

To ease your mind.

I am on a mission tonight

To do all the things I cannot

On this dim 3 am night.

I want to immortalize you

So that men for decades to come

Will whisper this sweet serenade

Like nothings into the ears of their lovers.

I want to make you

The epitome of the power of ink.

I am on a mission tonight

To make you my mission

For the rest of our lives.


Thank you Kyle Louw for helping me polish this.