YEAR OF THE CAT

Chinese New Year- Falling in Love

Standing in the gloom
of the room
your male presence
mesmerises

like in the middle of
a kaleidoscope
now the room
revolves around
your face

patterns
shapes all
juxtapositioned
the epicentre of
your dark being

In that moment
you were imprinted
onto me
no code cracker
has the key

to unravel what
this word means
to me

d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s

You said this
was one of 'my' words

You liked me to
slowly roll
it over my
tongue

Made you smile
like the creamy Cheshire cat

No-one else
liked my deliciousness
quite the way
you did