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AROUND YOUR LIPS

To circle around your lips

Never touching

Your fragrant, sticky cherry blossom

Until your heart fluttered

Your breath went shallow

And your knees felt light

I would circle your cherry button

Until your eyes would dim

And senses would shudder

Your voice would be as delicate

As dew on a morning flower

My tongue will sing your carnal spirit

Like the ebb and flow of the sea

The fury and calm of a summer storm

Your lost whisper and violent sigh

Will lose your purpose

And burn you with cold fire

Grief and madness will wed you in ecstacy

Your wounds will heal and you will feel

Dull explosions

Like fireworks in the rain

Loves distance will be the eye of a hurricane

And the lights will dim as your senses shine

On this petit death

The sun shall rain tears of light and clarity

With strength and abandon

Like an eagle on wounded wing

The breath of life shall soar

Farewell torment

Farewell memory