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We, the Pioneers

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."

-Walt Whitman

 

And your *******

Like mountains over the course of eons,

Will rise and fall

With your quickening breath.

 

Your breaths can outlast time.

Your voice can topple empires.

Your sighs are intoxicating—

I get drunk off your words.

 

Words fall pathetically short.

One thousand poets and scribes cannot

Express to you a single drop

Of the ocean behind my lips.

 

Kiss them, and drown with me

In a sea of our own creation,

A world where love is no longer trite,

And poems about it are

Dangerously revolutionary.

 

We will be pioneers amongst lovers!

O! we will be pioneers!

 

We will travel the globe under the guise of night.

And I will cross the planes of your back,

The valley between your shoulders.

I will rappel kisses off the cliff of your collarbones

And over your ******* which,

As mountains enduring but an instant of eternity,

Will rise and fall

With your quickening breath.

 

And we will stand against time itself.

 

And it will crumble beneath our gaze.

 

And we will outlast eternity.

 

Because we are pioneers amongst lovers!

O! we are pioneers!

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ethan-taylor
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Jan 14, 2010
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