you're so hot your heart will never break againonce you realize the absence you grieve is a presence within asking to receive
the magic you perceive is but you staring into yourselfI wish I could see you from as many perspectives as your mind composesI wish I could be the words you write see from their vantageto feel your smile as I'm pulled by your immersive gaze and melt into meaningblister into belonging and never scab
every time you hit the right noteyour eyes are a slow light ablazeglimmering through every disappearing dusk
I wish I knew what it was like to be the pen you holdthe way your grip tightens when a line makes you bleedsmearing black ink like a painting touched with a new feelingthe keys you type on with fervor and passion like you mean it
I wish I could be a feelingto cleanse in the scent of your tearsto not need a sea but dive in the current ofyour nameand purify the body that carries you
I want to be the lone freckle in your right eye to know how it feels to be submerged in avisionbreathingnever coming up for airnever needing to in order to feel aliveas the rest of your vessels contract
your eyes remind me of another way to breathe
you're so hoteven though you've been silent most of your lifehow I wish I could feel what your lips felt the moment they spokefeel the way they quivered before separating the rush of your releaseI want to exist as the air they press upon collapse between their symmetryand fall into its shape carved by your exhale
you're so hotI wish I could see you without a mirrorknow what it is to really see youthen write a poem about the way I do what other choice could my body bear toseepwithout a barrier that only shows your reflectionI want to undress the glass as it shatters between usfeel you reach for me like I do when I reach for my voice
you're so hotwhen you believe in a dreamlet reality retractuntil you're refracted in a realm of your callinghow I want to hear the volume of your cords raise arpeggios in the heat of an answer please always keeps answering
I want to be the floor you walk upon feel the whole of you without fracturingI want to be the fragment of the imagination you extractbe inside its prism that directs the sun where to shineI want to feel the sun when its rays devour youonly your silhouette remainsI want to know what she feelsin her knowing of how only she can unearthyour red highlightsthrough your hair the shade of burnt cocoa nearly blacktranslate your DNA strand by strand layer by layeruntil I'm stripped inside your particlesI want to dive deeper inside your depthyou taught me how my oxygen dissolves if I stay on the surface
I want to be the silence that enters you feel the electricity of your insightwhat it is to be let in through youlet me be your iron the blood that moves you let me be inside your veinswhen your heart starts racing like a river that knows where it flows and how it will never empty but overflow to move me like you tend to love's motion is to know me in a nestled notion in the ache of devotion
you're so hot you're more than human poetry written by a god you recreated living inside you resurrecting me no wonder so many angels surround you it's your essence that penetrates the tincture pulling heaven down around us
you hide behind metaphor until you're promptedto tell me why you're so hotit was never a secretyou wanted to be seenyour truth transparentof what you've always been trying to say I believe first you had to love yourself become intimate with the muscle that knows more than your pain the way you glow when you can command grief where to go to make the vow to never bathe in concealment for you have always known on the other side
you're so hotthe way you walk through your fears of open spaceshow bodies of water breathe you into the timing of their wavesto permeate your lungs with verses of vitalitythe way you feel the panic despite so you can live enough to write the poem to write the poem is why you are alive
you're so hot when you think of me thinking of other women the way you look at themin a transfixed glazeyou knew there was no coming back to any other after the eye contact of the solvent of your spirit
you're so hot the way you show me how to keep coming back keep me from missing you after you became the first to never leave keep me listening as your body whispers indelible ink on fabric so delicate delving into the geometry of your core
the truth is how will I ever know another the way you see me and I in you
I hope you always remember
I know I’m never alonefor you alone exist
- Jacqueline McCoy
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