weathering

when the earth shatters beneath us and we are broken open picked apart by the silence let me tell you you are unrehearsed laughter sleeping between the murmur of my lips an unconscious love a man dipped in midnight lightening i will fix my body for you and fold in the bend of your arms a tortured jewel you are a freedom song humming in the shadow of my soul a healing heartache that kisses wounds and sets free tornadoes on my spine such a crippling tongue my spirit is dancing in the gospel of your chest and i have found music glowing in the whirlwind of your eyes may we create new skies to fall apart under together the sun bent its head on my skin this morning and i could hear the bones of butterflies creaking in the breeze the breath of birds heaving into the heart of my ears my eyes whistled open the air still smelling of lavender smoke and wet leaves i turn to you staring the lids of your jarred pupils your face your face is a naked desert at dawn an ancient heaven at horizon your mouth slightly caved open like an owling cow i smile blooming because somewhere before i remember this i remember this silence you sound of a starving angel when you sleep you snore like a wailing forest my love i think of you like a waking dream of your spine's grip melted into the sand dunes of my palms last night last night your hands sprinkled across my flesh like rainstorms and i can feel the sun this morning he is strong and gleaming your eyelashes splinter from the blow of my lips rise and shine