Friday, December 20, 2024

Where other men have been before (2015)

 

 

The tip of my tongue

 circles the tip of it,

as if in orbit.

More John Glenn

Than Neil Armstrong,

Tasting a world

Other men have traversed before

And still I am

Grateful for it,

The essence of it

Oozes out onto my lips

Like clear blood

I need to sip

The more I circle

The more consumed

I become,

Drunk on a nectar so sweet

Bees buzz in my head,

I stagger with

The taste of you,

Too drunk to trust

Without a designated driver

Only I can’t stop

You, my life support

Without which

I might dry up

In this orbit,

All I have or want to

Going round and round

Feeling it get hard

At the edge of my tongue

And I still drink

 


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