Tentadora Poem by G J Salgado

I couldn't get her out of my mind
My thoughts often raced with visions of her
Then when I did finally see her; I couldn't take my eyes off of her
There was no explanation of why I needed her so badly
Why must I thirst for such a woman that I knew nothing about
It was at that moment that I must find out everything there was to know about her
But she suddenly disappeared; I was lost and I became separated from her
She somehow escaped from me and I didn't know where to find her
I looked at all of the places I knew she had been
Her scent lingered and I tasted what she left behind
The stench of who she was buried itself deep under my skin
Crawling deeper in my brain driving me further into insanity
It was raw pain that slithered its way inside me
She controlled whatever was left of me and I wasn't sure what I had become
My senses were lost in her nightmare as I dreamt of her several times like so many times before
The dreams were all the same just as they always were
I saw a fragment of her in the slight break of dawn
I reached out for her; almost reaching the edge of her fingertips
She slipped away from my grasp and this time she was gone
All that was there for me was her smell in the breeze and the lipstick she wore upon my breath
I exhaled a long cold breath that would soon be my last
Everything around me grew further away from me until it was all nothing but a blur
It was then that I knew she was the savage beast who ripped me away from where I once existed
She came from a world that existed only inside of my own head
I was forever damned by the dilemma inside my own thoughts
Through the gates of my mind I finally found her inside the flames as she dragged me through hell