beauty

You are gorgeous.

Gorgeous

/ˈɡôrjəs/

adjective

beautiful; very attractive; very pleasant.

I don’t know the meaning of beautiful

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but

I don’t trust my own opinion on anything

And I don’t know what it means for someone to be conventionally beautiful.

All I know is that if you aren’t gorgeous

Then what is the point of the word?

I don’t know what this feeling is.

No that’s not right, I

Know how I feel about you but I

Don’t know what it means.

I know it in English and in heartbeats but not in the language of

Labels.

I know with all my heart that you are

Gorgeous

But I don’t know quite exactly why

Which beautiful thing tipped the scale this far.

Gorgeous.

Gorgeous

Gorge.

Gorge

/ɡôrj/

noun

“a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.”

Hills or mountains with steep rocky walls

You have walls

Don’t you?

You hide them well

Because you let people through the place where they think the walls should be

But your walls aren’t there they’re

Somewhere else hiding

something else.

I don’t know what.

But I think you have them.

A narrow valley with a stream running through

Maybe.

Maybe you are something beautiful in someplace unexpected

Maybe I’m looking too hard for a metaphor or maybe

You are a stream of thoughts and personality

All contained in one narrow valley that is the small vessel of a human body.

Are you a stream

Contained in a narrow valley

Or are you an ocean

Uncontained

By the world?

Gorge

/ɡôrj/

noun

archaic

“the throat, the contents of the stomach.”

I don’t know about that one.

Gorge

/ɡôrj/

verb

“eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food.”

I could gorge myself on you

On this feeling

On your eye contact

Your touch.

I could gorge myself on this moment

No this one

This one

When you are still looking at me and

I am still looking at

you and

Here we both are

still.