Limerence

How I was once white

Artemis

the tenacious and indestructible 

goddess, gold and pure

evoking fortitude from symphonies and nocturnes. 

Nothing could puncture my impervious mind 

or muddle and unhinge my soul. I,

an ancient olympian mortal,

could drink solitude and ache 

and never dwindle. 

And then you came, callous and feral

and drank my blood, my soul. 

I clung to you like a mollusk, 

astonished by your cold, cold heart.

Cold and magnificent - a statue

seducing me.

I cannot go back, 

the irretrievable bond stitched you inside my heart

so I seek you now. 

I hand myself to you 

like a small marionette

I tie the threads around your fingers -

you, the stony puppeteer 

juggling the pieces of my heart. 

I am Artemis no more, I surrender

and unpeel the shielding layer of my soul.

So now, powerless and exposed, 

I hang from the yellow ceiling of your hands 

irrefutably and madly in love with you.