I Love You Passionately

I love you passionately
more passionately than the
     light of
     a thousand burning stars
     shooting through the midnight sky

I love you passionately
more passionately than the
     crashing of
     a thousand thunderous waves
     beating the shores of the wind-wracked beaches

Your eyes burn into me
     black and glittering,
flashing with passion
moving us together with
unspoken fierceness
     our love unfettered,
wild and untamable.

I love you passionately
more passionately than the
     fires of
     a thousand suns
     smiting the soils of the planets surrounding

more passionately than the
     kisses of
     a thousand nights
     fervent with the fury of
     great need and desire.

           I must have you.

(Written in 1985)