the thrill of your chase

I didn’t fall in love with you for those mundane reasons that everyone had for falling in love with you, for the way your curly hair fell on your perfectly arched eyebrows or for the way you flashed your dimple to get out of talking about your feelings or even how your serene body looked every morning after the sun woke you up

I fell in love with you because I grew up turning the pages of every love story, searching for a raging love like yours,

I fell in love with your twisted mind, for the tantalising tricks you played on me that pushed me to the brink of insanity but nothing ever made me feel more alive again,

I fell in love with the thrill of your chase and for the pleasure of finally being called yours.