Within his mouth I put my worth
Within his eyes my beauty
Though the burden was unknown
He still fulfilled his duty
The smallest favor he would pay
Became my only light
For it could coat like sunshine
And keep me up at night
The slightest of disparagements
Could crack my thickest crust
Disabling my heart for days
Upending all I trust
I yearn to think that in these throes
A lesson yet was gained
But in times of failing confidence
I still adduce his name
How could my mouth come forth with such words
These millions of phrases we’ve all of us heard
As if we could capture the sun within syllables
But I guess one man’s anchor is another’s dirigible
Flight is subjective when blood plays a part
The flapping of wings can sound just like a heart
And the air raising altitude requires some motion
To accomplish the churning of a well winded ocean
So batten your hatches and raise up your sails
And decide here and now what it means to prevail
Adept navigation to cut through the tide
Or willingly, wanting to be swept o’er the side
Love has a meaning to any and all
To some it’s like rising, to some it’s a fall
But with wings or with bruises we still forge ahead
For a life without love, we just were not bred
With only closed eyes
And fingertips
He etches my face
Upon the windows glass
I stare from it
As if seeing something precious
A deep delight in the eyes
A sly grin ready to burst
With teeth
The brows are sensually relaxed
With a confidence
A knowing
My hair cascades just so
Around my face
Feigning a shyness
However my beaming cheeks
Betray the soft tendrils
Two tight apples
of unhidden joy
As he turns to me
Opening his eyes
His near sighing exhale
Dissolves into a smile
That forms like a reflex
I feel my face fall
Into formation
With his creation
When our eyes meet
That smile of coy wanting
Envelops me again within your essence
A climbing inner warmth
To ease away all that is not you
The spilled ink of rapture
To blot out all but us
To lock our eyes
And urge sweet giggles
Like the trickling drops
of an overflowing fountain
Each move we make
Clinging to the other’s
Like a shadow
And we are that
Shadows
Always connected
Longing to rejoin within the perfect light
The slight brush of a cheek
The widening, trusting pupil
It’s too late to recoil
The shields I’ve built are futile
A calm within each breath
That passes through their lips
A journey could be started
With each and every kiss
To say that I’m enamored
Would not even start
To tell of the true magnitude
Their energy imparts
Only dreams now could imagine
How our colors swirl and blend
And the galaxy created
By the spangled path we wend
Love had always been a dressing
She could wear upon her sleeve
Never asking her to open
Never leaving her to grieve
Yet when his eyes bored deep within in her
She now seemed to have no choice
She could feel its waves inside her
He could hear it in her voice
Now as they stood still and staring
Yearning as they never had
All they were was being offered
Two should finally unclad
There’ s a warm arm that awaits
To sling just so around my shoulder
A brazen love that steeps in patience
A daring heart to disarm me
Without fear
Only love
That answers what I ask
And honestly so
That forgets its shame in my presence
and strips me of mine
That contentedly lies with me
sighing in the harmonic tones
that match sound of my soul
It was then I realized
I wanted seawalls
And sandbags
While you wished for the torrent
To wash you away
Just for the chance to make a new you
Again
You had no idea how deeply I felt
I had no idea I had hidden it from you
I chose to feel your cruelty rather than my guilt
For somewhere deep inside
I knew the next wave would wash it away
The hard edges would become dreamy sea glass
The muted jewels of the sea
The carelessness of man
Made beautiful
With friction and time
Worn down in the waves
So a clear view of the world couldn’t hurt us any longer
Each wave thunders upon the shore
To sync up our hearts to its rhythm
To spare us the rampant drumming
We force upon ourselves
By falling in love
Adorned in dusty cobwebs
At home in this crevice
I know it seems unusual
Exploring now this premise
Alone with just my thoughts
No teeth to sink into me
No jelly covered fingers
Trying to poke through me
I’ve become somewhat a hermit
In this darkened cranny
I’m honestly quite comfortable
Though my nose draws near my fanny
Yet I still miss the snuggles
From her tiny wrenching arms
Twas nice to be a presence
That never did her harm
Perhaps one day she’ll find me
And we’ll embark on new adventures
And I’m sure I’ll love her always
Whether she wears pigtails or dentures
A moment, A breath
A tiny cleft
That no one e’er can touch
It’s safe, inside
My mind it hides
Because it means that much
It would seem small
To one or all
If they even remember
It’s so exact
The moment that
Your love made me surrender
The Mewriginal 