The sledgehammer pounds on life's
icicle spike
It’s driven inside me--inside of my
heart.
It splinters my chest and it opens
me up
And digs even deeper as if there is
treasure in there somewhere
And he finds it
That part where Beloved, your home
has its place
The only place in me I don't want to
escape
The head of the spike its drawing
closer to my skin and the hairs on my chest stand up with a shiver
Old sweat beads down around my heart
into that crease of my chest but the blood pouring out
Of my heart's not new
The spike
It is melting
Like liquid sun glinting over the
dried blood of my flesh washing me clean,
A river of faces of used to be
knowns, people distorted sucked up by the past
Tomorrow will hold them no longer,
and we all need some tomorrow
There
You
At last
I see
You
So beautiful
Beloved you warm me up
The insides of me bubble and shake
with the you pumping through me
Pulsing through my blood
Your soul
A song
Our song
Too much?
You slow down and spread e'er so
slightly
You U-turn around my ear so you can
whisper my name and I'll know you're voice
You bear left down my jaw and tickle
my cheek so I'll know what it feels like for you to kiss me goodnight
You pause at my mouth as you roll
through the stop sign and redden these lips with your tongue
Beloved you drive out to the edge of
my world, circling my feet you spin around like you're a ballerina and dance a
tingle into my toes
And then you return
And I only wish to do the same for
you
To complete you
To celebrate our conquering of life
Sprinting through every fiber of
your skin
Letting myself in
Taking notes in your eye
Counting every drop of color that
paints the collage of your iris
Studying the infinity of your pupils
Dancing on the follicle of an
eyelash and falling
And landing
In that hollow before your cheek
where I could call my home if but a moment
You and I
Beloved
After melting life
After melting the past
What lasts?
Wont to sing and overcome
Wont to dance
To hold hands
For who?
For us?
Love
Love is not magic or a sudden
exchange
But the loving caress of a palm on
my face
Your palm
Your fingers
“Hold me!”
“No!” I remiss
“I can hold myself”
“I can’t”
“You must” I rebut
Dance with me too
Love me so fully and fill up and
pour out this vessel
Love me ‘til bruises cover me
Love me ‘til my teeth shatter with
the weight of our kissing
Love me ‘til my nose can smell you
like a shark smells blood from a mile away
Love me ‘til you can feel my love
rushing through you
And I’ll love you ‘til bleeding
makes you feel better and comfort is comfort only when we're together
I’ll love you ‘til our dreams become
reality and we dream once again
I’ll love you further, then
I’ll love you ‘til our song fills
the universe's silence and conducts it with a string
‘Til the universe taps its feet
I’ll love you ‘til my insides become
you and you’re the half of my whole
I'll love you ‘til all those clichés
ring true and yet we won't say them
No
Beloved we'll do nothing but sing
‘Til words aren't enough
And filling you up and life comes
once again to the door of our body and once again we send it off in evaporated
dew and you and I weld the pieces of our broken heart, bending our dreams and bringing
hope to our souls ‘til the universe says "Fools and Lovers! just go ahead
and go"
And it'll be just you and I and
we'll be filled to the brim
With love
With the other
And then I'll love you again
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