The space on the nape of your neck
Was pre-designed for my head

I could evaporate into it
Play hide and seek
Between your collar bones

Peek from behind your lips
Tie your tongue with my fingertips

I want to be swallowed
Darkness cast away by your glow
Want to become
The spark in your bones

Words that make a snarl
As they launch from your throat
Fireball letters
Construed into sentences
That singe my edges

You seek solace in my open arms
Which close fast
Melded tightly from the past

Apologies slip
Sand through finger tips
But I see beyond it

Bound for the cycle
To turn into a circle
*I know you'll never change

Heavy sighs
Slipping from burning bodies
Replacing words
Too tangled
On panting tongues

Fingers tracing
Silky skin
Mingling with heart beats
That slam like back doors

Tangible heat
Seeps between
Ensnared fingers

You & I
We are drawn tight
Magnetic

You & I
Are a lock finally slid into place
United and safe

I keep pacing the shoreline
Waiting for pieces of me
To wash up with debris

Pieces that would still glow
Even though you
Put the embers in my bones

780 tallies
For every time
I feel ship wrecked without you

They say another man's trash
Is someone else's treasure
But you are the only one
Who ever made me feel like a prize

When his fingers trace my skin
It will be a foreign invasion
Of the territory you made
A traitor
Waltzing on enemy lines

I'll look for you
In the contours of a strangers smiles
Or behind his fingertips
Waiting for just a glimpse
Of your light
To seep from someone else's skin

For pieces of you to surface
Rise like blood
A purple splotched
I love you
Signed with
I'm yours

I'll hold my breath forever
*but you won't ever come

I just need a suitcase
Big enough
To pack you in

I could
Dissolve into you
Fizzle away
Into your brilliance
Dissipating
Just a shadow cast
Across broad shoulder blades

You have replaced my bones
Sunshine now slips
Through my veins
Fragments of hope
Sliding through window panes
Igniting

With you
Something inside me collides
Pieces shift
Back into their places
A dead bolt lock
Keeping me safe

Within  you
I've found the missing pieces of myself