We are trees living on opposite sides of a street.
Our roots grow underground, hidden.
Lengthening toward each other until they touch and intertwine.
The Weight of You
After, you roll on top of me.
The weight of you is an intimate full body embrace.
I lay under you, absorbing the last bits of our emotional and physical release into my soul.
I am comforted and warm, and I love you.
I carry the weight of you as a memory throughout the day.
Inside Part Two
Find those places inside me.
The places that are the most hurt, the most ruined.
Find those places inside me where I dwell alone and lay yourself gently there.
Love me for all my wicked, and all my wrecked.
Enter that space and accept my brokenness with your compassion and your kisses.
Honey
The way we make love in the heat of Summer is sticky and sweet.
Wet skin and honey running down our legs.
Shift
Your eyes smiled as you touched my face and said the words I’ve waited a lifetime to hear.
My center shifted, and my heart began to beat your name.
In the Evening
In the evening, we walk hand in hand surrounded by the sounds of birds in the trees and children’s voices.
The sweet sounds of innocence trilling and chattering, mixing together.
Songs and exclamations of wonder.
The Summer breeze blowing our hair and moving my skirt about our ankles brings the smells of dirt and grass.
The Sun, low in the Sky casts our shadows into one another as we step in an easy rhythm.
This is the place you brought me.
This place of Nature and easy. This place of Summer and Sky. This place of openness and peace.
I look up at you and see you are already looking at me. You smile, my heart fills, and the rest of the world disappears.
And in these moments, I understand what it feels like to come home.
Bend
Wrapped in each other time slows, and the arc of the Sky bends around us pulling day into night.
Stars spread out wide, full and vast… like the moments, as we breathe each other in.
Heart Kiss
Take off your heaviness and leave it at the door with your shoes.
The World will wait.
Come with me and fall into our space.
Our laughter bouncing like light between us makes our moments together happy and pure.
Our hearts kiss, and we remember each other and how to love.
In the Daylight
Smeared lipgloss and your beard on my neck and nipples
is how I long to spend my afternoon.
Stargazing and Honey
I crawled on top of you, and your arms pulled me close.
You entered me, your fingertips and breath on my skin. Your voice in my ears, telling me of Stars and beekeeping.
You took up space in my heart and, with the magic that is you made the old place of soul ache and love loss fade away.
Our new place is Sundays in bed, vegetables in the garden, and candy in the pantry.
This new place is a hand to hold as we weather the storms and heartbeats to share tears of sorrow and laughter.
This new place holds the promise of stargazing and honey.