You are the reason I write....
The reason I feel again...
The highs and the lows of me...
The ins and the outs of my deepest soul....

You brought me to light.....

You are the joy in the simplest of things...
the butterflies inside...
You make my heart smile as no one has...
You put it there....

I write these for you...

Our concrete and woods...
Our wordless hellos...
The way you embrace me...
like your holding on to my heart....

I feel these with you....

The fragile skimming of your mouth...
The roughness of your jaw...
The complexities of all you make me feel....
The utter free fall....

I learned these from you....

You are everything I never knew existed...
So much that I never could feel...
You are the completeness in my day...
The contrast to my light....

I love you for these....

You are the reason I write....

E.J.M.

If I didn't like it
I wouldn't have continued to do this for a year and a half....


these words took away all of the broken ones before it....

E.J.M.

I dream of sitting in bed with you...
Curled into one another...
Your lips pressed against my shoulder..
Just being with you in twilight...

Those moments when the day ends...
Those last few seconds...
as the day departs and the night encroaches....
To just be....

I don't need words...
Or actions of any kind...
I want no plans...

I simply want to be with you in silence...
Inaction....
Together for the quiet darkening moments...
Listening to you breathe....

Knowing that you'll be here when I awake...

E.J.M.

We make this harder than it is....
All the turns and twists of us...

The intricacies of the lives we live...
The parts that don't fit into our world...

The simplicity of us
is this....

I love you and you love me

There's so much more and so much less...
But in the end, this is why we are....

The how we are...
The where we are...

It all comes back to that moment that I loved you....
And the moment you wanted to hear it....

It could all be so simple....

E.J.M.

Glinting amber topaz...
Ebony orbs...
black satin lashes....
against sepia skin...

you look into me...

I've never seen such undescribable color...
The rawness mirrors your intensity....
So dangerously intoxicating...
treacherously forbidden....

I drown in you....

Our gaze locks...
I'm done in moments...
Drawn to the darkest parts ....
of you against me...

The henna sparkle...
Topaz shimmer....
Promising me destruction....
Feelings that I've never known....

Only to come back again...

E.J.M.

The golden orb of sunrise as it breaks the horizon....
The new fragile sprouts on my plumeria...
The fuzzy baby peaches growing. ..
The sweltering heat of the day...

I think of you.....

As I shower with water beading off of me...
As I pass places we once were...
Another song on the radio. ..
As I make plans for the day...

I think of you....

The sunlight in my grey eyes...
The wind in my hair....
The untaken path...
The rustle of leaves....

I think of you....

The purpling sky...
The fiery setting sun....
The blackest nights....
Under a smattering of a million sparkling stars...

I think of you....

I share these with you in unspoken thoughts....
I ache for you in everything that I do...
The simplest of joys...
Unable to be....

I think of you.....

E.J.M.

The indigo of your ink...
The Cerulean sky overhead...