Shall We Muse

People talk about love like it's

bubblegum on the tip of your tongue

a hit from a cool new drug

the chorus in your favorite pop song

But it's more like

hydrochloric acid for your cotton candy souls

it's a five inch drill bit through my left collar bone

it's five hundred flood lights, after a dim room

it's fire sparked by the friction between my blood and the walls of my veins as it races through my body at the speed of sound

a lightning lullaby that burns my ears

and some still wonder what reason I have to fear

For so much of my life I've been afraid to lose Nothing was ever worth the risk That happiness induced

But now I've found a goodness So urgent to live and love That even if taken tomorrow It will have been enough

My lover is sky  His heart is the sun  It burns him from within  And keeps him undone 

His eyes are on fire  His tongue and his teeth Are an ozone layer To temper the heat 

Warmth pours out of lungs Exhaled light and love  But the inside of his skin  Is slowly burning up 

Of desire and disdain  Such a one should beware  Lest he find himself trying  To subside solar flares 

My lover is sky  Our love is the sea  His heart is the sun 

His world  is me 

Until I fall apart like a piece of cork

Dripping down the front of my pilled sweater

The iron is hot, but I can’t strike a mess

Pieces of means, never an end

In the silky mint midnight of autumn  I whispered a wish to the wind  I didn’t know where it was going  Just a hope for a hope to begin 

How clumsy and graceless my wish danced  Among the crisp red yellow orange leaves  But when the wind stops I know it will top  The prettiest pile of dreams