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.