Love Jones

Run with me through cigarette fog

Tell me you love me through clouded judgement

Recite scriptures

Whenever you kiss my palms

Write lines of poetic truths on the lines of my fingers

Reassure of this

Whatever this may be

Let me know that it is between us

Without words being said

Dance with me

Make me eggs in the morning

Sleep in my arms at night  

As we watch the stars dance on the ceiling

trace the shadows of Coltrane’s notes on the walls

Memorize all of Jill’s lyrics

And float on Lauryn’s melodies

Lay with me

Let me read your mind,

Rub the wrinkles that hide your thoughts on your forehead

i want to watch you sleep

Memorize the way you breathe

The pattern of your chest as you dream

What does your imagination hold when your eyes are closed?

i want to dangle off your every word

Want you to guide me to your tongue, lips.

Want to explore all of you.

Want to graze your teeth,

Know what makes your jaws clench,

i want to know all of you.

Intoxicated from the thought of your being

i want you to look at me

Like i am the oxygen you crave

What we have, whatever this may be

Is easier than breathing

But there are always casualties

We become one and i lose myself in it all.

Leave my morals at your front door

My resistance in your sheets,

My scent of anguish left on your blankets

So that you recognize my return

You smell like my dealer

Addictive, dealing me nickel bags of you

Dubs of you

That keep me calling your phone

Keep me coming back

An excuse i use to talk to you

i want to write in cigarette fog about you

So that you will know how it feels

To slowly disappear