Some days it just feels easier to fade away.

Others I feel pulled away.

But I just want to be pull toward,

1. Sensitivity is a strength, not a weakness.

2. Self care is not a buzzword. It is how you heal.

3. Don’t define yourself by what you do. Know who you are.

4. You don’t need someone else to complete you.

5. Your brain is your biggest sexual organ.

6. It’s not a crime to smile in pictures.

7. Porn is not reality. Don’t let it shape yours.

8. There’s nothing wrong with a belly.

9. You are important to someone.

10. You’re beautiful just for who you are.

That I’m afraid,

Of letting go,

That I’m ashamed

Of hurts I’ve caused

And I’m wary of

Dropping walls.

You may never, ever know

That my tears are heavy,

And leave craters in the ground

When they hit

And then explode.

You may never, ever know…

Cause if you did,

I’d always be invisible.

And I can’t risk not being seen

That I saw you,

My eyes wondered as they wandered

And asked my brain,

“Where does this beauty come from?”

The first time

That we spoke,

My tongue waggled and writhed

Trying to fit interesting

Factoids into short bursts of

Messages so you’d keep coming back.

The first time

My heart stopped beating,

I wondered what had happened to it.

Then I realized

But never call me a poet.

I’m simply a man with deep,

Sometimes destructive feelings

Who gets easily overwhelmed by them,

Yet depends on written words

To become a healing salve,

Preventing combustion

And being conquered

The feel of your lips and teeth.

Your tongue so skilled that just

A simple thought…a memory…

Brings goosebumps to my skin, and a whimper

To my voice and..

An mmmm and an Unf

And the unzipping of jeans quickly followed by..

Warmth. And endings. And a new beginning

From a new memory of your

Lips and teeth, and a tongue so skilled….

Well, you get the idea.

Soulful skin tone

With sultry, deep eyes that

Tear rivers in rock, and fill holes

In my heart.

Will you be my vision?

Deep, dark soul,

With scintillating, scorching words that

Destroy the offender, but welcome

The lover.

Will you be my vision? The image

That my camera has fallen in love with?

Will you be my…