The chocolate is soft
Once a fist
Turning from form
To a fold
Of slow rolling wave
In the embrace of tongue
And tooth
The taste of her
Comes through still
A scent ripe
With must and sweat
And skin
A memory like the stamp
Of a first kiss
That lips will not let go
She is beside me
Already enraptured
In sleep and sueños
Slim fingers curled
Around mine
As her eyes flit
With dream
And daylight
It is now that I choose to tell her
About herself
Tell her how her smile
Beats my heart into rhythms
Of rain and rapture
Every single time
She smiles so hard her cheeks crease
Or how when her fingers are not there
To curl around mine
Mine curl around shadows
And slants of light
Searching for hers
In the still air dark
Of 1:00 a.m.
I choose now to whisper things in her ear
I’ll never tell her again
Hoping something in her
Receives my words
Maybe locks them away in a corner of her heart
And that perhaps one day
She will see a wave
A curl of folded blue
Slow rolling across ocean
Like sound over sleep
And she will know
Without knowing how
Or why
That she is loved
Once a fist
Turning from form
To a fold
Of slow rolling wave
In the embrace of tongue
And tooth
The taste of her
Comes through still
A scent ripe
With must and sweat
And skin
A memory like the stamp
Of a first kiss
That lips will not let go
She is beside me
Already enraptured
In sleep and sueños
Slim fingers curled
Around mine
As her eyes flit
With dream
And daylight
It is now that I choose to tell her
About herself
Tell her how her smile
Beats my heart into rhythms
Of rain and rapture
Every single time
She smiles so hard her cheeks crease
Or how when her fingers are not there
To curl around mine
Mine curl around shadows
And slants of light
Searching for hers
In the still air dark
Of 1:00 a.m.
I choose now to whisper things in her ear
I’ll never tell her again
Hoping something in her
Receives my words
Maybe locks them away in a corner of her heart
And that perhaps one day
She will see a wave
A curl of folded blue
Slow rolling across ocean
Like sound over sleep
And she will know
Without knowing how
Or why
That she is loved