Attraction

Twitching smiles and fatal attraction
Lowered lashes and rosy eyes
Nervous fingers, dangerous distraction
Bitten tongues and spinning lies

Sickened words, offhand and alarming
Smiles misted with quicksand and tar
Yet eyebrows raise, you find me so charming
While I’m misguided alone in the dark

Love is pregnant on your honeyed tongue
Love is the question hidden deep in my mind
Up the ladder we climb rung from rung
Trying to unmask fates ever-changing disguise

Is there truth in this path merging together?
Is this what they call head over heels?
Is it drunk driving in imperious weather?
Or a child spinning a toy cars wheels?

Some things we cared for, some things we outgrew
I memorized your expression pleading with me to stay,
And in that passing moment, I remembered I loved you
But I still closed the book, turned, and faded away