You look like a fire escape in a dress
Flower patterned
Sunday's best
I don't have to fall so hard anymore
The first night I held you
I dug your neck into a trench
This body was not at war with itself
Your shoulders are battlements
Your chest a drawbridge
I am waiting
Horseless
For you to let me in
I know you are so much softer than that
Lay across me again gorgeous
Let me sleep under your strength
Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM UTC
You look like a fire escape in a dress
Flower patterned
Sunday's best
I don't have to fall so hard anymore
The first night I held you
I dug your neck into a trench
This body was not at war with itself
Your shoulders are battlements
Your chest a drawbridge
I am waiting
Horseless
For you to let me in
I know you are so much softer than that
Lay across me again gorgeous
Let me sleep under your strength
The excersize was to describe a location and write about it like it were the safest place in the world without using words like safe or sanctuary. I could not for the life of me think of a place I felt safe. I wrote about a body instead. This is called a sanctuary poem.
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