Your essence
By your grace, dawn loosens its veil of gold,
Breathing awake the hush of unslept dreams.
I move through your silence like a shadowed tide,
Learning the cadence of your tender hold.
In your touch, the earth remembers itself-
Roots humming low beneath a skin of dew.
I drift, feather-light, on the curve of your sighs,
Carried where all horizons blur into you.
In your woods, fire learns the grammar of shade,
Secrets ripen where light dares not stay.
Stars unfasten beneath your velvet sky,
Whole galaxies opening inside your gaze.
Your love flows-an unexhausted river,
Honeyed, holy, dark with depth.
It enters my soul, then my skin,
A slow-lit flame teaching my body its breath.
Summer’s fervor, winter’s restraint,
Fold into one another without fear.
We rise and surrender, storm and stillness,
Held in the hush of your nearness here.
Your essence-solid, fluid, breath and flame-
Unthreads the borders of my form.
Your face blooms, sun-kissed and green,
My heart turns petal, soft and warm.
My longing coils, a lucid serpent,
Bright with ache, precise with grace.
Tell me, beloved-what word of me
Do you keep closest to your pulse’s place?
The one that stills you.
The one that undoes you.
The name of us, whispered, and never erased.

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