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07:48
Staring as you sleep, at home in your embrace, as I watch your eyelashes, still and resting. Most mornings, I am overwhelmed, opportunistic, as I burrow under the covers, clinging to your chest, annoyance that you earned, by appearing in my life, and making me fall in love with you. I hold onto you, and…
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Marked
You ask me, where I’m going, I say “Lipgloss” and then I’m back, my lips on yours. I always come back, but you always ask, as if my lips aren’t marked, with your initials.
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Destiny, and Other Aquarian Things
When I was apart, from your arms, I knew, at last I belonged to them.
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10:31
I can’t touch you, because I’m so fragile, and just a second in your arms would destroy me, but there is nothing else that will fix me.
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Still
In the cold light of day, when my cheeks are flushed, full of rage, when my body is weary, unable to pretend to be perfect, when the curtains are open, covers off, with nowhere to hide, he loves me, still.