Friday, June 28, 2024

orchid July 2012

 

 

 You open up like an orchid,

 exposed before me,

in my dreams,

fragile pedals quiver

 each time I lean

too close

seeking a scent too potent

 I struggle to breathe,

smother myself in you,

the world, my world,

 quaking as we spread our limbs

 to absorb the sun,

 you, precious and tender,

yet scalding to touch,

 boiling up inside me,

as all is lost in a haze

 that is not real,

my mind stirring up visions

like old coals,

 filled with the sparks

of wishes for not what is,

but what cannot be,

 fingers bleeding from

clutching thorns too tightly,

I lick each drip of blood

as if licking you,

 too sweet to endure,

 too much a dream

 that can’t be real.

 


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