Forbidden Fruit

I've tasted your forbidden fruit.
Mmmmmm.  Its delectable drops still linger in my mouth.
I think I'm so strong,
yet you nearly made me so easy.
You melted me like butter.
So soft to the touch, yet aggressive.
You tickled me inside and out.
You gave me your all, unexpectedly surprising.
Do not apologize.
It was worth it.
And now, I want more.
Help me laugh again in delighted giddiness.
Can't help but smile every time it all settles back upon my mind.
I'm very mindful and thankful that this didn't happen in earlier times
because they'd have killed us or locked us both up.
I like my freedom.
I still want more.

A Life Worth Living

The mirage has been swept away
exposing you for who you truly are.
While I appreciate the transparency,
it saddens me deeply.
You are so much more than these insecurities
which bind and blind you.
Real talk.  You rob yourself of who you
were always meant to be.
It drives us apart, an unwelcomed effect.
Yet, I see I have a choice, I have a voice.
And, I cannot let mine be silent or apathetic.
A life of excellence is what I must passionately pursue.
Don't get me wrong though.
How I truly wish to my core our relationships could intertwine
like rivers aligning, moving forward toward the same end.

Surfer

I have been overwhelmed,
my emotions riding atop the waves
drowning me.

Unsatiated.  You will not compromise.
I am left to wonder, to simply let go.
Such a difficult path.

Tumult after tumult comes against me.
But I have no arms to surf these waves.
You offer me no rope, push me under.

Those looking from the sandy shore stand aghast.
Nightmares.  Horror.
Who blandished beach flags to blush?

There is no joy. 
I close my mouth to avoid spewing the swallowed saltiness.
The water has made my senses go numb.

Oh how unlikely a hero!
Here comes the fly flitting out to meet me!
Sweet, alluring buzz.  You listen to and calm my cries.

Your vast host of eyes offer gifted vision.
New perspectives.  Solutions.  Calmness.
I am saved.  Breathing.  Living.

I am letting go and moving on.
A better person.
Weathered swimmer blissfully drinking in the waves' drumroll.