I could say it is so precious,
But then I would be lying.

I could say we are all lucky;
Everyone would believe me.

I could pull that microphone up to my chin,
Curl my lips around the thirty different voices,
Repeat it over and over,
Year after year after year.

No matter how much I ate at that microphone,
I would still go to Hell
For all the lies I told the world,
About itself.

My mind is tangled threads
my words are knots that choke your working fingers
I can't hear my thoughts
as you expand yourself from speakers
little box in your throat
reminds me of the time I had mono
swollen throat glands and the boy I was
with wore so much blue
it made me sea-sick

and it's all just a tape recorder rewind
I have heard this all before
before I ever heard this
life was flush with wonder
lush
thunderous
and I did not have to coo
or plead
for silence.

Can we talk?
Because I feel like I'm suffocating you.

A break of beams rush through the blinds.
Sleep sizzles in my ears and nose.
I sink beside your wall of skin.
Our eyes are heavy and
Flutter from the weight of eachothers sight.
Words week out and hang
Between our lips.
A good morning is sung
As my hands stretch over to you.
Your warmth vibrates into my palm
As I grasp
More and more of you.
Mornings this bright
Leave me dazed,
But my mornings would be nothing without you.

I'm so in love, I feel it in every world I know.

Could I **** a man
whose heart has rotten anyhow?

Released from expectations, obligations, complications, observations;
Capable - clear by daylight, clear by night;
A self illuminated.

Remove her charm,
Remove her front.
Relinquish the gilded guise,
Ridding the mark.

Some might find their heart to go for the sake of anger,
a selfish motive.
But love is not lacking in this new world:
An opening indefinable,
elation in every intentional step.

Recognize, fully,
the satisfaction on her cheeks,
as disregard of fright rushes through her mind -
Cleared to find the features of fret soften;
Hear a humming  worry no more.

Throw into this world of freedom,
stripped of symptoms from her most prominent loss
- a certain faith -
she now becomes a voice to trust.