fall asleep with me tonight. by Pretty-As-A-Picture, literature
Literature
fall asleep with me tonight.
If I wrote you a lullaby with verses of moonlit, fogged breath and a chorus of heartbeats- would you fall asleep with our melody in your palms?
I lie awake at night and watch traffic lights outside my window shout RED into the peace quiet and occasional hazy rev of traffic. I lie awake and shiver through layers and wish to silent stars it wasnt winter, wish the nighttime cool wouldnt paint quite so many goose bumps on my skin and make my eyelids so cold. I lie awake at night and night-dream without sleep- about you and all your eyelashes and beautiful wordings.
I like the way your collarbone lies horizontally beneath your neck,
Eight Kisses
One
You can call
it emptiness, breath, epithet, or oblivion
or love, or the thing we can't
touch, while in motion.
The rush
of your mouth in me like icemelt water,
innocent, surging
like a creek,
touching,
stopped.
His voice is tempting me
to forget past transgressions.
It is a grumbling sparkle of distraction.
Ah, yes, taunting me
with words that are diamond sharp and misleading.
Yet all my heart can contribute is a stuttering "shhhh..."
to logic and remembered absence.
His voice is tempting me
to forget his past transgressions.