Euphoria washes his body

as the spectacular feeling

lathers his soul with bubbles

overwhelms with completeness

she is the other half of him

scrubbing him softly of his past

filling his vessel and overflowing

with unconditional affection

trusting her to unshackle him

from needs that do not coincide

with her completely open spirit

effervescent with nothing hidden

no secrets from one another

thinking of her first thing

upon awakening and

last thing before closing eyes

smiling as he pictures

laughing face and yes,

he lusts for her body

wants to hold her to him

overcome with affection and need

will sacrifice anything for her

feels intense and passionate

sensual and alive with longing

one word from her releases him

from weight and pain of the world

he will love her as she ages

even more than he does now

it builds and consumes more space

as time goes by in waves of knowing

that she will always be there

everything he sees, feels, touches

or smells reminds him of her

incorporated into his universe

a fever that escalates

independent of his desire

this is the love that he cherishes.

   Love is all-consuming. It's all pounding hearts, sweat coating skin, and the constant urge to cry because they aren't in your sight. It comes from the deepest part of you that you never believed existed until the sun hits their eyes and you see the true colors of their iris's-the true emotions they feel. It's terrfying because your throat closes up, and your hands shake, and your muscles clench, and you feel this need to be beside them and just spend hours watching them. You become terrified because this one person, this one in 7 billion people, has you so enraptured that everyone else is merely a grain of sand. 

   It is never the same each day. You can love them so much you hate them for making you think about them before yourself. You can guess their words before they say it, their thoughts before they think it. You can understand them so well that you lose your sense of individuality because you have become one with them. Their looks and smell are barely important; their smiles and expressions are what become your entire world. 

   If you experience the pounding heart, the sweat, the muscle twitches, the closing of your throat, at the simple thought of them-you are in love and it is the most relaxing and stressful things, but it is a gift.