How I used to crawl under your sheets
To find those toes wiggling free
And those legs like long trees
With echoes of giggles you would plea
To have me climb my way up
From your ticklish roots
To your savoring apples

You with those Eiffel Tower legs and your porcelain backbones.
You with the stargazed eyes that look at me like I'm made of wonder.
I invite you to relax with me tonight, to get out of those knee-deep graves.
You will not find my heart buried there.
I admire your dedication but when I told you my heart was in hell,
I meant I was the only one
who can bring it back.

She was different from the rest
She was a furnace
Different from the plastic girls
I used to date
She was true to who she was
She melted the fake to the floor
If you could withstand her heat
She would sharpen you like a sword
So blacksmith I became and with her fire
She engulfed me in love into her flame

There she stood in the junction
of the earth and sky
watching the horizon
that overcame the night
And in its presence,
the silhouettes of life
There she stood in the earth's choice
She looked back at the shadows
that appeared in it's decision
The offing of the sea now called her name
The consequences of night
were now overcome obstacles
She moved at ease
In the safe boundary of day
Walking through the cold dense air
left behind by the night
And there she waited to be hugged
by the warmth of the slow rising sun.