Yours
Your tears bleeding inside the heart, your sandalwood drop of ritual, your fog, your shame-stained body, your tenderness, your pleasure of possession, your hips sculpted in desire, your careful silence, your mouth brimming with seed, your kiss collapsing the world, your love—safe as a locked door, your rape, your trembling fear, your excuse for being lost. Your house, your outside, your self I take, your bed I throw you on, your separation signed in paper, your advertisement spread across the paper’s gray columns, your beauty demanded like a commodity. Your dream I will inhabit, your naked night I will lie beside, your pain I will carry like an inheritance, your silence sealed at the mouth, your breasts pouring milk, your child of love, your treasure hoarded like myth, your rain-soaked skin, your scent of earth and hunger, your heart unlocked at last. Your love, your hand in mine, your search for the one who lives inside your mind. ...