Holding your breath

You dove right in

to what you didn’t know

While holding your breath for me

And I know what I am

to you Some exotic fruit

whose juice bit your tongue 

Some rare bird

whose song plagued your skull

Some mermaid whose mirage

burned itself to the backs

of your eyelids when

you lost yourself at sea

You would call me

unconventionally beautiful

But I would laugh in your face