The Blood & The Bones

I want to feel it

to soak up its heavy sweetness

I want to know it’s touch

upon lips and hips and fingertips again

and for it to make smiles upon my face

that reach my eyes

to feel the heavy door to my rib cage

where the blood beats and the hunger in me sleeps

open wide

I want to speak the names it goes by

beyond what I have known

I want to be loved

and to love in return

I want this

to have all of this again

but I am terrified

LL