Who Are You? Poem by Jeremy Nel

You of the fair hair
And green flashing eyes
That generate their own light
Dazzling white teeth
Smiling oh so bright
It puts to shame the sun’s own light.

You are so witty
And you laugh so easily
With clear voice that rings and bells
And hungers for my soul
For it seemed to reap it
Unbeknown to me

I was so mesmerized
As if a schoolboy, haunted by your beauty
And your evocative sensuousness
That seemed to ooze from your very being
It charmed me, and bound me to your mind
So I never noted the loss of my soul

Are you a siren?
Luring me to my death?
Or a lingering painful life
Without a soul?
Haunted by the thoughts of you
And what could not be?

Am I then doomed to die
Ne’er having been closer to you
To have held you just once
To have breathed the aroma of your hair
Beneath my face
As I gently stroke its silky strands?

Never to have felt the stroke
Of my finger tips brushing thine sweet flesh
Its silky smoothness
Supple beneath my hands
Softly yielding to my touch
Its gentle scent wafting through my senses

Never again to hear the words
Spoken from your sweet lips
Of my friend I lost
Ere I had found her
Never to hear her firm advice
Given with such gentle compassion.

Life is so strange
Too oft do we brush away those who touch our lives
With scant regard for what it does to them
Then when it doth befall
Our very selves
How deep and far we fall.