Unknown to me
Remembering how
just hello made my heart race,
your smile intoxicated,
eyes that defined blue.
Intellect taken by storm, overpowered;
it seemed as emotional adversaries
had brokered a cease fire.
Before you were unknown to me,
pleasures multiplied into passion
previously unexperienced; mesmerizing.
Feelings like a storm that, ever increasing,
created the imagery of real love which
when crashed on the rocks of reality
turned as fatal as any other addiction.
Before you were unknown to me.
Then heartache of betrayal,
soul crushing false accusations.
Lies repeated endlessly,
vows proven only worthless whispering.
Beliefs revealed as counterfeit,
then life sentence of bitter loneliness;
born before you were unknown to me.