Blogging from A to Z Challenge - Letter A (Attraction)

This year I've decided to be part of the awesome Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April. My theme for the daily posts is LOVE. For the letter A I have chosen the topic Attraction, and I'm sharing a poem I wrote a while ago.
A for Attraction
Attractive distraction

All of a sudden, distraction
Turned into sweet attraction
In the fatal fraction
Of a facetious second

From stopping to look at you
I found out that now
I can’t stop looking at you

From being amused by you
I’ve turned to musing about you
You’re now almost my muse

I was watching you from the corner of my eyes
And now I’m the one who’s cornered
By the look on your face when you stare into my eyes

How come that without my doing
You turned around and into something else
Becoming my interest without further a-do

There was only innocent conversation
Flirtatious jokes on the tip of our tongues
Now shared in a tongue-twisting lip talk

There was only the occasional friendly touch
A hand on an arm, a peck on a cheek
Now I can’t bear you touching anyone else

Had I known before
What was lying in store
That I’d be in love to the core
That you could be so much more
I wouldn’t have let you distract me
Let alone let you attract me
Wouldn’t have wasted this fraction of time
Would have or wouldn’t have
Attempted not to be tempted
By such an attractive distraction, distractive attraction


© Devika Fernando