Foreign Emotion

The idea provoked me. 

Jolting my heart with such might, 

yet such simple gentleness

 that I could not decipher what exactly had me 

electrified.

 An emotion foreign to me, 

traveling days 

and sleepless nights 

to a little notch 

burrowed in the pulsating drive of emotion 

destined to stop

 at every nerve,

 every inch, 

every tissue and fiber 

of my physical body.