You amuse me
and bewilder me
and shake me to my very core
yet somehow keep me in balance.
Rise from my murderous words
I will end your life, yet.

He outstretches his eager young hands
with gentlest care
for which I care not
yet these hands
and these arms
were once the source of all comfort for
my fashioned soul.
My soul was molded to break the cast
and so I broke you
and cast you into the air
- a reproach of the ugliest origin
- a sin of the most beautiful kind
we do not belong to one another
an eagle and a skylark lost,
our liveliness is found and brought to life
in each other
but life remains grounded.

Heed these words:

Fly away
from me,
lest your wings falter
then I will be here
I solemnly promise
to harm you
no longer.