I want it so loud my ears are ringing for days

the whisper of your melancholy words in my brain

I want it to attack when I least expect 

and render me incapable of coherent thought

your lucid pronunciation becomes my own

I start to lose myself in whispered words, I'm undone

let the drip of conscious slide down my back

as I'm released back into your arms where I belong

like tapping fingers on my throat you consume

the cloud of you the air I breathe begins to choke

easily they fall from your lips

to bring sweet pestilence to my ear

the note rumbles from you as an earthquake to a shore

the wave of you seduces me

and leaves me an open sore

the sustain in your throat leaves me with bated breath

as you suck from my lungs the air and you begin to possess

the candid silence I hear in your pause

I've known from the very start: I'm yours.

your tender kiss lands upon my lobe

I bathe in the poignant simplicity of your verse

it swims around my love of your spoken word

you condemn me to deliverance

one that I cannot forgo

you lick me prosey and a delight

for yours is one I cannot forget

you speak again and wind around me

like a ribbon for a child you're affluent within
how long is a piece of string you may ask
about as long as my fondness for your voice, my love.