What did you wanna do?

Before you met me?

Before I met you?

Did your bones shake?

Did the rattle snake

High with fangs

Jiggle his belly in the air?

As a beast.

As man.

Was it a mistake?

Was it something that

kept you awake

At night?

Dreaming desperately to delete

A memory

And replace it

With one thing

You could

Fight for.

Did you somehow happen to

Hate who you’d become?

Was it no longer fun?

Did you feel

A little lost?

A little strange?

Did the fringe of your vest

Constrict snuggly

against your chest

A cold compress

Allowing blood flow

Through droves of veins

Left untouched?

You won’t be alone again,

I’ve got my hands

clasped fast around your heart

Like fireflies glowing in the dark.

Baby, I got you.

Baby, this is just the start.

Imagine this setting:

A Cake as Your Heart

Evenly curving the mirror glaze

Uniformly blending the colors we’ve made

Pulling parchment paper,

Honey, so sweet and so thick

Over an arrangement of berries for a

Rose water vanilla layered cake

Iridescently.

All so heavenly, for a slice of cake.

And lettering is like

Lips lip-locking

Over forks and

tongues to knives

To press tongue tips

To frosting that

has yet to be chipped.

It’ll shine

Like a galaxy

Starlight and glitter

Something alien

But sparking

Like Pop Rocks

To tastebuds

After Cola Cola sips drip.

And if I could count

the things

I could personify

your love as

I might be well out of numbers.

Building collections

of my own

Out of sets

of stones,

Different shapes and tones,

Intentions

And lessons

When one has

deafened themselves

From the world

for a little while.

Your love

personified

As rhyme

The way it makes me sing.

Your lungs inhale like

The way you play your drum.

Your love to me is music

A rhythmic medicine

for the mind.

Spelling it from

your fingertips

The way it

means to unwind.

I shall compare thee

To a summer’s day

As rain water

Pitter-patters in May

The budding sprouts

Shift to bloom.

My heart for you

Has flooded.

Poetic lines

Have immortalized you.