A taste is all you get
And all I’ll let myself get too
Like a little lick of luck
That tiny tinge of tenderness
Mere mesmerization in that moment
No longer near now
A taste is all you get

We swapped cigarette scented saliva

And I swear

You seeped into my skin

We can salvage sweet silence
And scream like it’s our last breath
Wander in the drizzling rain
And wake with wide eyes

"Your eyes look pretty in the light" they say
"Your *****'s really tight" they say

"I love the way you write" they say
"I'm only free at night" they say

You can see my ******* soul
I unleash it when we sleep
Together in tangled sheets

In the morning
We're never whole
Disposed news of a bruise to the ego
You cannot love me like an empty plan.

No.

Fluorescent classroom lights
illuminate the band around
your muscular arm,
but it looked better by the moonlight
against my sheets.

You use kisses as punctuation
as your exhale contstructs
smokey sentences
on lines all
down
my
back.

Turn around;
you just might find
some things you'd rather
pushed aside
than my legs open wide.
Just don't be surprised
if you discover you need me
but I'm just proof reading you.

Fluorescent classroom lights
illuminate the band around
your muscular arm,
but it looked better by the moonlight
against my sheets.

You use kisses as punctuation
as your exhale contstructs
smokey sentences
on lines all
down
my
back.

Turn around;
you just might find
some things you'd rather
pushed aside
than my legs open wide.
Just don't be surprised
if you need me
more than I need you.

How does it feel
to see me from a distance
in a dimly lit classroom;
my eyes, avoiding your glance
lit only now by the projector.

How does it feel
to see me wearing a shirt
that you once peeled off
and threw onto your bedroom floor

You're not there
to fix the cigarette
I broke
from his pack

You're not there
in my shower
as I kiss his soapy back

Stay away
for your own good
and for my good and his good

Stay away
with your demons
and I'll stray away like I should