You’ve stolen my mind
All I see is
Pictures, sensations, remarks,
Ideas, dreams, symbols
Of you

You’ve stolen my emotions
They used to be my own
Whatever I felt
They represented
Now you control them
Like a dictator

You’ve stolen my words
You’ve crept into them
And poisoned my vocabulary
Your name is spoken
Once too many

You’ve stolen my time
It escapes my firm grasp
It trickles down my loving arms
It throws itself away into the past
Before I can make a sound

You’ve stolen my heart
It tenses whenever you pass
It pounds whenever you touch me
It flutters
Trying to break free of its feeble cage
My memories have stored it in

You call this thievery
A name that shall not be announced
You’re a deceiving master in the art
Of robbery

You filch me in every way
Every way except, of course,
My soul
It is the part of me
That is officially Untouchable
I dare you to touch it
I look forward to your reaction