tidal

I wake and you're next to me
the world can do me no harm
in your arms there are no more wars
no more battles to be waged
your body has a tidal effect
gravity pulling us closer and closer
until we are one
inseparable

your warm flesh
pressed against mine
your breath hot
on the back of my neck
your hands searching
finding me in the darkness
my hard/soft side exposed
you don't rush to take advantage
there's plenty of time

sweet nothings
breathlessly whispered
it's so quiet I can hear
everything left unsaid
my mind races
my body braces
then finally
release
the chains...

the hounds...
the fear

immolation

our bodies
writhing
sweating
skin flushed
heart pounding
breath coming in gasps
I can taste your soul
when we kiss
it's salty
a taste like sex
when you say
please
I tremble
your scent
like the sweetest
lavender
thick as a london fog
my eyes
full of you and yours
around us
the house burns
the heat so (un)bearable
so necessary
to melt
into you

garden of eden

sometimes it seems
the world I walk through
is tainted
like spoiled milk, rotten
the very earth I walk
dark and wet
dirt from a grave diggers boots
the air I breathe
smacks of hatred and intolerance
this post-modern garden of eden
is polluted...

but every now and then
a beam of dazzling white light
falls on the ground at my feet
pure in nature
soothing my soul

you have done that for me
polished a tarnished faith
brought me back from the edge
to feel that warm beam on my face
words escape me
so does the pain
when I sleep
you enter my mind
effortlessly
and it all falls away
I wake to find a flower
growing in my garden
a plot I never knew existed
it rises from the renewed soil
a promise of tomorrow
hope for today
shine baby... shine