Lover Unseen

The day isn't complete without some good words of poetry. Here's one for you.

Enjoy!

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Come to me, loved one,

In the decadent night, stripped of silence

And holiness, let us abide

In the imagined lists of our limbs,

Let us reshape the bed to the shape of our sin,

Let us leave shadows on the wall,

To exorcise priests from their vestments,

Let's shame the devil and raise all hell here in.

Unbind me sweet lover unseen,

Cleanse my sores with your tender fingers,

Erase my hurts with liquid silence

Let me bask in your heat before I flee.

Come with me shadowed lover of my nights,

Let us fall from this heights

Into the madness of our wants,

Let us become shapes in the stars,

Blinking with our own code,

Let God know us and call us by name.

Unbind me and flee with me,

Ebony white queen of my heart.

I covet you like gold but I cannot spend you.

I must hoard like a miser each token wink,

Each smile, each pout of your sweet lips,

A memory that I can't let slip.