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and the rest is beyond words.


You are showing me

that is okay to be myself
to feel vulnerable and loved
without being cavalier 
without aiming for shock value 
and disconnected laughter. 
They ask how it was,
when you led me carefully
over the cobblestones, through 
your dark house, with both
of your hands holding my own,
falling into your softness, into
your bed and your kisses.
But this is all I can tell them:
I have loved, I have not. I have been
fucked as vulgarly as I talked about it,
but the way that you held my ankle
was more intimate than everything else
I have ever experienced before
put together.
 
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