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Dec 2013
I want to be under your skin, lying placidly, feeling the rush of your beats around me.
I wish to fall asleep to the rhythm of your breath
the pull of your muscles
the shocks of your nerves.
This relationship has been commandeered by desire, recklessly veering off the path of pleasantries.
Caged and wild, it waits...
Fighting the desire to claw and rip its way to the surface.
To give in is to destroy this ethereal state of what may be.
Only once chance do I have to sink into you, meld us together and adapt to this foreign occupation.
I don't wish to slip
I want to stick
like resin to fingertips...
I wish to stain you and leave you forever marked.
Fear races wildly in my eyes, drives me out of mind but I must keep it cool...
so very cool...
As if just one skittish movement could leave me alone.
could have you leave me alone
I'll play this marionette game, responding to your movements and your impulses.
Eventually i'll be a real person to you, not just another object to play with.
I'll be your shadow my love
Kiss the very ground you walk on
Just see me always...
Don't let the darkness dissipate what this light illuminates.
I want to be under your skin, safe and sound.
I'll stay here.
Waiting...
Patiently...
For you to let me come around.
Erica A Arnold
Written by
Erica A Arnold  Chicago
(Chicago)   
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   Jerome Facione, Liam and Maytin Paige
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