Within the circle of arms

Give me your mouth
So full of promise and blood
Pain dancing on silent tongue

Give me your hand
So full of strength and softness
Life beating in the feel of your wrist

Give me your body
So full of wicked and blessed
Pleasure burning through veins

Give me your mind
So full of fear and loss
Safe measure found at last

Give me your heart
So full of love and dark
You are, at last, home

Gold patterns in porcelain bowls

Eyes burning with weariness
Heavy they close
A heart soars free
Painful aches flee
Looking for the warmth of you
A choice
Again and again
Building as a droplet in snow
Becomes the mountain
Becomes the inexorable
Unstoppable
In my love of you
Mine
My choice

Sharp intake of breathe, the world grows heavy

Spin you gyre
In flame grown dark
In feast grown cold
Fierce and fury spent
Last raindrops fell
Silence
The wind dropped nothing
Pause in held breathe
Waiting in procession
Waiting to take you home