Saccharine Soldier

I come up behind you

And wrap my arms around you

And I rest my head on your shoulder

You turn into me and I want to be the holder

Of your heart forever

I will be your saccharine soldier

Both strong and sweet

Willing to fight and also willing to meet

You with patient understanding

And promise that you are never standing

Alone

And I have known

That I have been falling

Like your eyelids when they are tired, stalling

The inevitable look that you will give me

That tells me in my precious reverie

That those eyes were meant to look at me

This way

And when the twilight

Feels still and when the light

Is refracted on the walls of your apartment

And you are laying in my arms I am more aware

Of my heart than ever, more willing to dare

To leap to fall

To never mind at all

That days have burned on without notice

Days when all we know is us

Reading the poetry of your body

Of our legs intertwined, of perfection embodied

And the truest sentiment rings in my ears like distant drums 

Like our heartbeats synced to the same rhythm 

Raging against the setting sun

And you let me read

That you are falling in love with me

And I truly am so lucky

To have found someone who feels the same way as me