Words.

remember the day when you woke up my soul
pulled back the sheet and untied the rope
cut my sheet into a dress
unashamed of my nakedness



ha. you sing all the right songs and say all the right words, the ones my heart needs, the desert places. all the things i loved you made them for us. your hand salve on my wet face my bloody chest a heart escaping running away i won't let you leave. scraping past all the people blank faces say that you see me say that you see me THAT IS MY NAME. change my lungs. so as not to be offended please come. breathe with me as one, move me and crowd me with your jealous wind of love. help me love you more than the pain. make the joy deeper than the pain. take away my map so i can lose myself in you. caused to waste my life on your eternal embrace or settle for the least.

turn my eyes from usefulness and back to the beauty of being with you. that i am meant to be seen and not to be burned. gently when you tear open all the things that have been bandaged with paper. dissolve me with your kisses. lead me back to the house where i lived. lead me back.