I didn’t know how
To explain it
To her
How do you fit
The world
In an envelope?
How do you distill
The serum
So potent
On fire
The searing sensations
I’ve found as the flaming
Roots of my
Desires

Solid as they
Seemed somehow
I found them
Sublimated
Into ether as I
Sat there lame
Trying to explain

But here again
I start anew

Have you ever found
Yourself hungry
To be consumed?
To get lost?
Consensually used?

To forget
You were even you?

To turn off the world
For a moment of time?

To dissolve into another
Distinct and divine?

To forget if the lips
Pressed together
Were even yours
Or theirs?

As if you lost track
Of where you end
And they begin?

To be alone
Together

How I could explain it
To someone who has never
Held it in their hands?

How can the wind
Be powerful
And invisible?
It’s evidence found
Only in the traces
Left behind
On those it touches

It embraced me
And I’ve never quite been
The same

Instead
I’ve been
Bent?
Shaped.
Eroded?
Sculpted.