may you
wake
to an elegant dispersion of sound
slipping past your corners
countering
the ever-silent repose of your
latest suppressed desires
to my desperate triumphs over
the relentless tide of
oblique shadows
crossing my faith with
your temptation
curtsying
charming
when i dangle my fingers
at the tips of your fluttering eyelashes
wake
to an elegant dispersion of sound
slipping past your corners
countering
the ever-silent repose of your
latest suppressed desires
to my desperate triumphs over
the relentless tide of
oblique shadows
crossing my faith with
your temptation
curtsying
charming
when i dangle my fingers
at the tips of your fluttering eyelashes
This piece has been published in Teen Ink’s monthly print magazine.

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