Theme no 2: arm

a short mixture of thoughts

 

..for M, with whom I could never fall in love

 

My right arm caresses your face

Your right arm caresses my face

My left arm waits patiently, resting next to me, to be caressed too

But I’m neither left nor right

I stretch my arm to embrace you

You stretch your arm and grab mine

and we start dancing

I stretch both my arms to hold you

You smile and tickle me

I embrace myself in despair

You give me two more arms to embrace me

I hold your arms tightly

You cannot escape

You should not escape

I touch your arm

You touch my arm

My arm trembles, why can’t I be strong?

I’m lost in our thoughts for a second

I forget about the arms around me

One arm holds a cigarette to my lips; is it mine or yours?

 

You hold my arm

It gives you strength

I hold your arm, to feel the flesh

You worship my arm

It gives me strength

I bite the hand that shapes desire, is it the hand of God?

You kiss my arm,

You can’t deal with too much passion

All is lost in lust and caution

You hold my arms still when we f**k, strength is submission

I give away my masks for pennies

You twist my arms when we f**k, strength is submission

I’m lost in your darkest dreams

You like to be crossed over the sheets when we f**k, arms still, submission is strength

I bite the hand that waits to feel desire, will God punish me?

You kiss my arms with ecstasy, submission gives strength

Your hand in my mouth, my hand between your legs, minds out and minds in

Hands of desire on arms of pleasure

Give yourself to me, you ask

Hands of desire on arms of destruction

 

You take my hand if you want me to belong to you

I take your hand if I want to belong to you

You kiss my hand because you can’t deal with all that respect

I take you kiss and let it dry in my mind, it’s a stamp for lonely days

Reviews

[Kaelani]

oh my gosh thats beautiful. i love the emotion in this poem!