thoughts of you
lingering
like smoke
remembering
I’m alive
hazily conscious
my world
too bright, you dim it
close my eyes
now I see
breathing arises
you won’t let me fall
fatigued
your voice like rum
heady confection
green
your eyes, a memory
of how the ocean glistens
from beneath the waves
while drowning
don’t rescue me
this is how I’m saved
revived
in your gaze
don’t let me come down
promise this high
this drink writes your poetry
who needs the sky?
when the ground is perfumed
by flowers from tears
I’ve cried out
silently though
you hear me and cast down
white petals, I’m crazy
this insanity fills me
and yet I’m still hungry
let me stay in this
melancholy
prophetic
this evidence of God
testify, this feeling
under the sky
inhaling the stars
fire, spirit ignited
this is my prayer
wishing to be drowned
in your eyes
over and over again
litany
don’t baptize me
don’t put out this flame
let me smolder
I’ll trade heaven
for one night
with you
the heat a thousand hells would envy
what is disbelief?
how time is lost
this illusion, delusion
let me contemplate
meditate on
this hypocrisy
sinful, the devil is made holy
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