your absence
is like a wound
made by
the moon

it sounds
rather bold
but i'd like to marry you

if i held your heart
in my hands
i would kiss it
and hold it to my chest
i would give
you mine
and all
of my time
and i wish
you'd hold
me dearly

i will bathe you
in my starlight
like the stars
bathe the soil

She's got her eyes on her hand holding somebody else's
and she's got tiny planets stuck on her tongue

She doesn't understand how nice his hands felt covering hers,
how it reminded her of cotton fields
Funny how he has cotton candy smiles to match everything else about him

He makes her want to shed her skin twenty times
until she's clean enough to touch

But he also makes her want to grab a syringe
and inject some insulin into her bloodstream—
The whole thought of him frightened her to catatonic
and she knew her diabetic heart cannot handle such sweetness

She wants so much to let go of his hand
but he would smile and he would laugh and he would be
heavenly
and she would hate herself for ruining this

So she watches on at her hand holding somebody else's
and grit her teeth to the tiny planets exploding in her mouth

i can't sleep
but i don't want to

Much like dancing fireflies
Thoughts of you light my dark

©  2019 Jim Davis