Many Things, Written 10/10/13

Many Things, Written 10/10/13

There are so many things about you
that I just want to declare to the world

Tell my friends how you find me handsome

that your smile is the first thing I see every morning

even when you aren't lying in my arms.

I want to hold you up to the eye level of the world

To yell: “I found something beautiful that doesn't run from me!”

and hear your laugh.

There are so many things about you

that I just cant learn enough, fast enough.

With each adoring question you ask

I know you are thinking the same thing.

I can't help but find your words more precious

with each inquiry – what's your favourite flower?
We both love tulips. What's your fetish?We both enjoy losing control. What's something you regret?We both have opened questions with a sting, like ripping off a plaster

to find a healing cut on the other. And without recoil

Kissing it better, to sail on through a sea of inquiry and bedsheets.

There are so many things about you

that I would die just to know I would get to experience just once more

To feel you sign my arm and claim me as yours

To hear you laugh with pure joy kindled by simple togetherness

To feel that bite that patrols the border of Pleasure and Pain

watching carefully for something that might try to sneak across

To feel the shadow of doubts driven from my mind

with the pure springtime sunlight of your radiant smile

as you skip to me, and breathe light into every dark corner

with a kiss.