You Cannot Know

with one look
into your never-ending eyes
shining
with something so
unnameable (extraordinary),
I am lost.

at the sound of your
wonderfully scratchy
voice
so full of deep bass tones
I can feel
reverberating
from the top of my head to the
tips of my toes,
I am wounded.

when I see
you
even simply standing there, so
tall and silent, so
strong and lovely and so
very not mine,
I am dead.

you evoke
such intense emotions
in me;
you steal my breath and
still my heart.

I fall to pieces
but you do not see.
and I cannot put myself
back together
ever again.