Touch

I reached out

 

Touched your skin

Warmed my fingers

Clear to my heart

Sun on a frozen land

Bringing life, hope

The vague promise of tomorrow

Fades in the joy of today

Here, love lives

Thrives

Fills hollows

Chases shadows

Lets me breathe

Makes me believe

Touch me

Run your hands over my body

Beneath the heat of your caress

Feel my heart

Beat in expectation

            In pleasure

                        In love

I reached out

Touched you

Brushed eternity

The Blessing of Skin

Holding in

            the clawing biting snapping

                        sharpened anger

                    untamable fear

              the howls

                                             illusions unraveled

                                             trusts unkept

                                             faith undone

If it didn’t hold

If it ripped

         full body split

                     The keening shards of a soul would fly

            flung away

Free.

            finally…free

but forever lost