our love lives in the simplest of places
between the fibers of my blue sheets
where my fingernails dig small window frames
i look through when i rest my hand on your chest
and i feel your hairs scratching my face
i beg, fuck this sadness away
could it always be this way?
the hem of my dress riding up on my ass
and you say “baby, i like it this way”
my body distilled by the light
like a painting of one of those 19th century girls
delicate and commanding
Olympia
she stares back at you
wanting to be so soft and so sweet
still something more complex too
some body that’s only for you
and be a woman, too
when i open myself
your wife
and you touch me
the light of god enters the room
in shimmering golden dew
you circle around me
i've never been so high
peaking like the mountains that safeguard us
in the southwestern desert
they're white,
but down here it’s fiery
like the charred forests that we explore
in the bedroom you take me
when i’m the frontier you call home
daddy, just tell me i’m home
i want to be fearless,
but every fissure inside left a scar that still
feels tight when i'm dehydrated
if i could love my body the way that you do
maybe the pain would be less
knowing what i look like to the man who loves me
to glow from the places that frighten
feels an insurmountable task
but thats how joining you felt once, too
all the women i adore lament at the keys
on the loves that they've lost
when i was far away from you, i was so
when i lived alone by the sea
and now i’m here
in the flames of your phoenix
between the fibers of my blue sheets
where my fingernails dig small window frames
i look through when i rest my hand on your chest
and i feel your hairs scratching my face
i beg, fuck this sadness away
could it always be this way?
the hem of my dress riding up on my ass
and you say “baby, i like it this way”
my body distilled by the light
like a painting of one of those 19th century girls
delicate and commanding
Olympia
she stares back at you
wanting to be so soft and so sweet
still something more complex too
some body that’s only for you
and be a woman, too
when i open myself
your wife
and you touch me
the light of god enters the room
in shimmering golden dew
you circle around me
i've never been so high
peaking like the mountains that safeguard us
in the southwestern desert
they're white,
but down here it’s fiery
like the charred forests that we explore
in the bedroom you take me
when i’m the frontier you call home
daddy, just tell me i’m home
i want to be fearless,
but every fissure inside left a scar that still
feels tight when i'm dehydrated
if i could love my body the way that you do
maybe the pain would be less
knowing what i look like to the man who loves me
to glow from the places that frighten
feels an insurmountable task
but thats how joining you felt once, too
all the women i adore lament at the keys
on the loves that they've lost
when i was far away from you, i was so
when i lived alone by the sea
and now i’m here
in the flames of your phoenix