Circles, dances, moons and fires
earth and chapels, birds and liars
Forget them.
I cannot love you until we stand face to face
eyes locked in an open gaze,
In any time and any place, with any audience.
I cannot love you until
you strip me naked with your gaze
from head to toe
and look on me without shame or guilt
and your hungry eyes and heart
              drink their fill
I cannot love you until
In any time, in any place, with any audience
you feel my gaze
strip you naked from head to toe
and you salute my desire like the falcon
proud and independent
untamed and longing to soar      
to strike with swift and passionate beauty
not in the darkness of the hood
        but the darkness of me
            look on me
             over me
              in me
            through me
            look on me
              look!
              look!