We linger on each other
Every time we touch
Molecules switch
They do what we won’t
Leap into each other
Combine, multiply, be.
We linger on each other
Your mark is forever on the soles of my feet
You go where I go
I whisper to you when I hurt
And I know you hear me.
I time my breathing
By your prayers
So that I can help push them to heaven.
We linger on each other
I tie you around my fingers and toes
Like so much lace
So many pearls
Of wisdom
I feel you like still on the dead
Like growth on the trees
We linger on each other
In each other
With each other
For each other
Our smells burn together in the wind
Two perfumes become one
And as far away as I wish to get from
What you turn me into-
You linger.