While She Lay Sleeping
I felt her belly move against me,
As she lay sleeping.
Hollow now,
Empty
As my heart.
She curled, fetal, around me,
And quivered,
Not unlike an empty leaf,
Wishing to be filled again
By spring rain.
Her breath, ragged,
Eclipsed the shadow of my neck,
And for a moment,
I was there again:
Heat of conception,
Burning poet-fire
Coursing through to her,
A wish made on a tiny star
Within.
That star has fallen.
I feel her belly move against me,
As she lays sleeping.....
Butterflies the sky eclipse
And I'm thinking of your lips;
The way your tongue dips; hand grips.
Rainclouds open up and the rain drips
But when you smile at me, the pain skips
Right out of my heart, like a lightning flash.
My heartbeat's like a thunder crash,
And not just when you're under me;
Your arms they hold me and they cover me;
I'm protected, and something new in your eyes,
And when you look at me,
The sky's eclipsed with butterflies. |
