Make Me

Don't just make me your poet,

I don't want to settle 

for being something as mediocre

as a writer of couplets

even if they're iambic. 

Make my poem

a part of your poetry,

so thoroughly entwined 

in your experience of the poetic

that I am Pablo Neruda

when you read of love,

I am John Donne

when you read of angels, 

I am Shakespeare

when you read his immortal verse.

Don't just make me your heart,

make me romance,

the rose on your pillow,

the taste of a Malbec 

and its color staining your lips.

Make me your dances,

every partner a partner at a masquerade

wearing the illusion of my face.

Make me the percussion you move to,

the melody you sing

and when I am part of everything,

every verse of every poem,

every Valentine's, every wine,

and every single song,

you'll have made me yours.