Invisible Lover

Your tongue, like cider leaves an everlasting residue on my lips,

across my waist and upon my hips, a sticky adhesive that keeps skin against skin.

Your hands knit the beating muscle in my chest as it screams to the iridescent sky for you.

Lips kiss away saline that runs down the side of my face

while fingertips are caught fast in curly locks tracing down my shoulder blades.

Across our bed we lay upon satin sheets that cool us from the inside out

along with your breath which leaves an ocean of chilled laughter across my breasts and produces erect

nipples that you tease so playfully.

Once glistening lipstick has gone astray--

kisses across your cheeks, upon an eyebrow, layered on your abdomen and pausing at your bellybutton.

Only you have ever treated me this way, a way that shows me you won’t ever forget;

every solid caress, every openhanded expression of heartache.

An ocean of tears that have been suppressed for years erupt carelessly while you lay in my arms,

I will give you all you’ll ever need, as long as you prove truthful to the deed that it is me you’ll never leave.

And you held me so tightly to the point where words couldn’t escape,

only the voices that breaths make when in a slumber state.

And it’s this silence I crave for, this caressing notion that expresses to me your explicit passion.

And when you kiss me again and again, you remind me that you’re all I’ll ever need.

But you do not exist.

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