i am thumbing through pages of your scripture

studying chapter and verse

committing your psalms to memory

seeking the god in you

there i am

toiling Eden’s garden

hungry for the taste of you

so if they created you

than it is in their image, too,

that i digest forbidden fruit

last night, i tried to find the spot where truth lies

and fell into your full moon eyes

see, i had forgotten what it was like to be hypnotized

the earth in your iris was healing

the patience in your pupil revived me

see – i wanna love you like i love the east side

cause last night

when i dreamt of fallen angels

i found the musculature sketching of god in your smile and thought:

wow. they are real.

the crescent moon corners of your face begged me not to look away

so i lost myself in your universe

but have you forgotten what it feels like for someone to love your smile

as much as god does?

if you show me your naked soul

i’ll bare mine proudly, look – stare.

i am here

lay your open palm on my chest

feel my djembe drum heart beat

you got warrior hands

black like amethysts battling eager hips

this can’t be for nothing – this, something – this

you remind me of a jukebox love song

one with lyrics i don’t always remember

like that one line about how we first met

but with a juke that danced my heart back together

last night

you held me tight enough for the broken pieces of me to find their way whole

i know your soul

or at least, i want to

one day

when you, sun

and me, moon

climb in love

you make me feel like the first time

like if i could wake up every day

become your friend in love again, i would

just so i could spend my days wrapped up in the closeness of you

you are a butterfly’s wings reciting poetry in my belly

you are softly murmured prayers on a sinner’s lips

you send earthquakes shivering down my spine to form the great arch in my back

i am catastrophically overthrown

when you touch me

i am reminded

i am Eve

you, the forbidden tree

i felt thunder between my thighs

my temple collapses

round rolls my eyes

i soak your serpent in my flow of holy water

but have you tasted enough of me

felt inside me, made the moan

i never knew existed belt itself a beaming Hallelujah

will you recollect my sweetness on your tongue

so upon my crumbling you know precisely where to place

the puzzle pieces of my soul and of my hips

we will find our redemption

maybe where our pelvises meet and wings have calmed their fluttering

who knows

cause nothing is more enticing than fallen angels with their souls exposed