Tempter

You lean on the doorway
Half-shadow
Half sun
In your eyes
That deep ocean
I fall
I come undone

There’s a curve in your question
Sharp glint in your brow
Every word like a riddle
And I keep guessing how

You circle my reasons
Like smoke around light
Every step I’m taking
Spins closer to your bite

You laugh and the room tilts
Glass trembles in my hand
You are storm and commandment
And I just disobey on demand

You race through my thinking
Like thunder through wire
Every tangled suggestion
Strikes sparks in my spine and my fire

You hurry my heartbeat
You hurry my fall
I’m a maze you’re mapping
You’re naming every wall

Twist my logic
Kiss my doubt
You tie my silence
Then tear it out

I know the cost
I pay in full
To feel you tightening
Around my skull

My desired one
My skillful serpent
My tempter
Devilishly beautiful
You eclipse the early sunrise
When you pull me in
So cruel
So wonderful
Majestically harsh in your pride
Free-tongued
Untamable
Wild and suitable
My seducer
My cunning ruin
My tempter
Devilishly beautiful