Do I make you feel
as a teetotaller feels
when he takes a cup of beer?
Does my sight
warm your heart
or hurts your eyes
as gazing at the sun does?
Does my touch feel
like the raging sun on your skin
or like rain on the same?
Does my arms around you
make you feel in a safe haven
or does it make you feel
surrounded by thistles
fortified by summer?
Do you at my presence
feel like a caged bird
or like a bird set free?
How free do you feel?
Is it like a bird set free
with its feather to fly plucked?
Does your smile
as bright as the noon sun
define how you feel with me
or hide the same?
Does your heart
tingle or squirm?
Does your heart
scream to your lips
to take mine in captivity
or does it scream to your legs
to take over?
Do I do your precious life
as stars do the sky
or as feet do the river?
Do I
as water does fire
or as good soil does root
do you?
Here is a poem about love and curiosity. The questions could have sprung from doubt, suspicion etc. The poetic persona is asking his/her lover how he/she feels. Doing this, the poem is loaded with contrasting ideas. He/she wants to know if love exists in their relationship or all is a mere waste of time.
This poem is loaded with rhetorical questions and similes.