Please... tell me

How dare you be a stranger to me
you theif!

Stealing away the stories
I would beg.

For the honey dripping
there from your lips

I would pay in gold
in heartbeats, in the desperate moments

of lust revealed
in sighs.

How dare you listen;
know my heart,

 judge me with silence
and soft kisses.

You thief.
You've stolen my prayers,

the unmarked trails
from dust to love,

and the hibachi
where we could have cooked

the red meat raw
in salty wet sauces.

How dare you
know me so well

as you hide
in the open before me.

in the shadows of smiles
and brown eyes

how dare you?