An Intolerable Intolerance

She orders a milkshake for two, 

My heart floats into a lazy pirouette

Not to stop mid-twirl

By a pair of Lactaid pills

Magically born from her delicate palms,

Now

Moving into aqueous contents of her eyes

To trace my twirls,

Setting off black ripples in an opaque lake. 

She places each pill between parted lips,

My heart draws sine waves with Calypso leaps

Choreographed by her inborn deficiency

Translate into feminine fragility

An intolerance I cannot tolerate

Without

Wrapping her under the skin of my warm palms

To drain into veins,

Immersing her in the red songs of a mighty river.

She meets my wonderment with big doll eyes,

My heart skips and cartwheels brokenly

Out of sync for my inborn deficiency

Translate into unexplainable fragility

An intolerance I cannot tolerate

But for

The hope of a pharmaceutical antidote

To invade the current,

Damming the unbridled flow of an imposing ocean.