No words could ever tell you

what my heart is saying with each beat

Not even an entire novel can construe

the rhythm playing when our eyes meet

Every atom of my being

jumping with the birth of an ion

charged by the electrons fleeing

attracted to your unfathomable perfection

Unbalanced, at a loss for some form of communication

and robbed of my already irregular breath

yet you still manage to hold me frozen in contemplation

As if you yelled,"Checkmate." in a game of chess

And days later, I still cannot conceive

whether the memory of your smile is a cure or disease.