words

I see your pale skin canvassed

By the glow of the television

What riddles we live within

These stories, those

You snore softly and occasionally mutter

Uncertain of your place in space and time

I softly whisper you back to sleep

Though I long for your flesh

Your spirit

The frequency of your moan 

Simultaneously high and low

We transgress antiquity

We lull and roll

Tasting one another 

Small ripples in the great pond of time

Urging one another onward

Moment to moment, 

Binary stars colliding out there beyond everything

Yet here we are now

Filling one another up

Lovely and depraved

Naked and unafraid

2023sm