There’s a Darkness

Shedding my armor at your door
I followed you willingly, lovingly

Into a space where truth like knives
Rawly caresses the skin

There’s a darkness in the stream
Light falls through

While you cradle me
Whispering to my needs

Sacred things, unnamed things
Until my whole body weeps

Ubiquitous waves of surrender
Drowning me

My breath wrapped in yours
To sustain the moment

...

Awakening
I sense your absence

And wonder if perhaps you didn’t take me here
Because somebody took you here once

And abandoned you
In your own frightening desires

But now I’m in this place
I can’t go back

My armor rubs wrong
Against the new softness you’ve carved into me

There’s a darkness in the stream
Light falls through

Vulnerabilities illuminated
The tiny beads burn down my face


...

Mine

I squatted here... and after hours that feel like days that feel like centuries
This is my home

You may visit here
Just don’t try to move back in

I had it redecorated
When your stoicism left me cold


I want to play in this space
Exploring and opening myself

Fingertips tenuously wandering
Lingering in the arches and curves

Hugging my darkness close
While your light halos me

Yours

...

I bow supplicate at your doorway
Your hands wrapped around my hips

Hypnotize me with your words
Obsess me you say

There’s a darkness in the stream
Light falls through

Wooing the blackness, swaying the madness
Penetrating all that is me

A delicate lullaby
Hangs soundless in the air


...

Stepping backwards
Only diminishes the space between us


Turning to feel our next prey
We find ourselves browsing one another

There’s a darkness in the stream
Light falls through

Curious smiles dropping to reveal all
Time collapses in a moment of deep recognition

The intensity is so loud
You tenderly wrap your hands around my ears

...

Come back into the room with me
I don’t want to be a monster

i want to bask in my nakedness
my softness
my warmth
my sparkle

with you
with me

yours
mine

us