Rafer

let me just wear your grace for one second,

taste your kindness in my breath;

let me rummage through your blue-tinted dreams,

savour your love way deep beneath my tongue;

GOD has given us his mercies, this life, this now,

lay your tenderness with mine – let us be sanctified.

know me – the pulse behind my eyes

                   the thrust behind my tongue

                   the fearfulness behind my love

                                                                   I am everything.

can I hope to fit these things together?

private longings deep in my blood/your lips on mine on yours on mine inside/darknesses of our skins under our sins through our skins where we hide/madness of pleasure our laughter turns clockwise to merge/burns/yearns/tell me in that fervent dash of passion amidst the lucidity/in that drama/in that hurricane/in that adrenaline spiked nose-bleed/whisper it wet into my ear/she trembles/she waits/he touches her skin and tells her he loves her……...//

what hope to fit these things together!?

I will always be soft for your manfulness

your jeans                                           and

steel tip boots

I will always be soft for your scars, your fears,

your midday                                       and

your midnight

I will always be soft……. amazed…….resilient….

                        W O M A N

                                                                        for you,

                                                                                    my man.

/la

06/06/00