To You Who Derive Beauty in my Mind

 

 

One by one I took your limbs like petals

The husk that conceals the heart of our flesh

Which we share in the gentle night

In the rapture of our shared budding colors

 

You gave your pollen to me and I scattered it

Like a delicious tulip of our silky dream-span

You like a lamp and mirror of our honey-warmth

Last in me like a fragrance I call home

One by one you let me loosen your resistances

Until we yearned for the sun of love

 

A mutual fascination with the light

As I painted your veins with care and you

Sculpted me a hungry fire in the dark

One by one you let go of all your inhibitions

And we were trustworthy in our shared aliveness.