Magnetism

Action at a distance confounds me

Same as Isaac Newton

And even he could not explain

Invisible tethers across

 An empty space

How can we be in alignment

When we are so very different

Yet when you are near me

Toroidal loops are sweeping

Me into your web

Drawn into your presence

Every nerve on high alert

My skin sensing your skin

Crying out to touch

The physics of resonance

Hardwired attraction

I am helpless

My fingers seek to run

Through your hair

I pull away, I want safety

Yet chaos tells me

Polarity cannot be

Isolated

You are north, I am south

Mirrored

Somehow exploiting yet 

Aligning to protect

Our vulnerabilities

Are you iron?

Am I a lodestone? 

Electrified, magnetized

When you wrapped your arms

Around me and taught

Me self-defense

But it's the tangle of you and I

That I need to defend against

Because if your leg touches mine

I might disorient

And pull to your north

This terrifying magnetism

The gravity of longing

Wavering in the static

Holding my breath against its power

Is my self-preservation

Strong enough to resist?