Gifted

Your body welcoming me

Joining as the seas’ ebb and flow

They do not know us

They do not know what makes us alive

and lost in peaceful ignorance

Walk with me through a hushed forest

Where the birds fly free

from gilded cages

I have not lost hope in me

I have not lost your sense of ambiguity

Take my hand forsaking all others

Wild and rare as orchids in bloom

Fragility understood

But there is nothing to fear here

Stretched long and languid

I will bask in your heat with abandon

Joining as the seas’ ebb and flow

They do not know us

They do not know what makes us alive

and lost in peaceful ignorance

Walk with me through a hushed forest

Where the birds fly free

from gilded cages

I have not lost hope in me

I have not lost your sense of ambiguity

Take my hand forsaking all others

Wild and rare as orchids in bloom

Fragility understood

But there is nothing to fear here

Stretched long and languid

I will bask in your heat with abandon

It is hard to breathe in the dark

Where blue moons rise and fall

Leaving me in awe of your love

Help me forget the past

and I will drink you in with an

unquenchable thirst

I am adrift in your tears

Bathing in what could only be divinity

Feeling tangents without cause

Gift to me your pain

and I will let it pass through me

Together we will uncover what all others

have cast away

And begin, anew .

--Michelle Martin