Beauty In the Beast

12/19/14

I look into your eyes

And they engulf me

They tap into my mind

Like a baby's foot

In its mother's womb

That piercing

Fearless gaze

Knocks my fearful fists

Back to my sides

As the lights dim and flicker

At the corners of my eyes

I reach to touch your hands

And they warm me

They cover me 

In the same way 

The night blankets the day

Those calloused, 

Tired palms

Graze mine harder ad rougher

As the skin rips

And the warm blood spills

Bruised,

My body fights

But my heart still believes

It needs you

Here, I am alone

Here, I am afraid

I'm afraid of your anger

That which are etched

Deep into the lines on your hands

And hides in the back of your eyes

Would you kiss me again

If I touched your lips?

Will you love me again

If I submit?

I lay in wait

Knocked up

Between your calloused hands

Thinking of your once kind eyes