Thursday, October 21, 2010

the space between my fingers


in the palm of your hand

rests my heart--a bit

battered and bruised from

a time before.. but there

it rests, in your capable

hand.

it's intoxicating.. the steady breathing,

the up and down of your chest as we

lie (i've never lied) here under a canopy

of hiding stars. i can't remember a time--

before-- when i felt so complete, so completely

content. your arm felt nice wrapped round

my shoulder as you teach me slowly

what the music should have meant.

it's the light behind your eye and the whistle

in your voice that brings me, entranced,

hungry. but this wasn't what i meant

to say, not now, as i breathe you in--

every drop of you. we see the world in

gasps or we feel the world in those feather-

light caresses that chill my spine and stir

my soul, almost nonsensically (i bet others

don't feel that way) and i can't stop i can't stop

i can't stop falling in love with you. learning

over again, what it's like to rest my head on

your chest---i'll be driven insane just in

remembering the way the moonlight fell upon

us that night.

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