Cupid's Kiss

It is too early to love you, I tell myself

Though my heart has already jumped from my chest

I searched for it, desperately

For I did not feel it beating within me

Only to find it resting in your hands

You look at me, with an unreadable expression

I reach for my heart

Give it back!

But you pull it to your chest with tears in your eyes

How do I take this?

How do I take knowing the sting of love

Does your heart not beat within you?

I look at my hands, only to find fragments

I have only part of you

Your eyes speak of pain

So I wait…

Has cupid’s arrow found me?

Pierced me deeply, only to graze you

I bleed emotions so foreign

Love has wounded me

Yet I breathe, in and out

Trying not to pull back

To snatch my heart and run

I have been found

Touched by love’s kiss

Cupid