That Butterfly Feeling

Was it just indigestion?

a little ball of gas?

That made my heart flutter

a beat all too fast?

I mistook it for more.

a beautiful affliction.

But it may have been a cramp;

a strange bowel constriction.

I'd hoped we had real magic

our intimacy stout.

But you were a nip of vertigo.

a plague of gout.

I felt the love we were building

a real work of art.

I now know that feeling

was merely

a fart.