I am stunned to look at you

Transcending any standard of beauty, my attraction is intuitive, primal

All my animal instincts draw me toward you

Light hits you and highlights your perfection

The shadows it casts shapes indescribable wonder

You sit nearly haloed in divine grandeur

Painters and poets spend lifetimes trying to capture you

Their greatest achievements weak prostrations to your inexpressible reality

Shall I too try to capture you?

You offer no resistance, elegantly enduring my efforts

My attempts are embarrassing, ridiculous

Is it hubris or foolishness to have even tried?

Or simply human

Who are any of us in comparison to your eternal stature?

The world moves too quickly

My capacities insignificant

You are indominable in your wild independence

I attempt surrender to the awe of simply being in your presence

All thought of capture affirmed as insufficient, but the humility to abandon the desire of a lifetime beside you is agonizing

Our relationship is a gift from you to me, but do I have the grace to accept it in impotence?

The train enters a tunnel and the moment passes, forcing acquiescence

The evanescence of you will have to be enough