Into Mazey

We were finger-painting contours
Speaking in our oldest language
The one that bears no words- too rude
The one that whispers and asks
Receiving only the answer it discovers on it's own
So my voice was lost
There was no way to reveal it
The marks ugly, interfering
Your caress traced over scars left deep in hidden flesh
Paleontologist
How do I tell you
I want to lie in the Earth forever, and never be brought to light
You are the last grand adventurer
Searching for the cause of death in the bareness of my being
Don't look at what the wounds left for you
You can't find my soul on my skin
In the crook of my neck
The waxing full of my mouth
Don't do what others have done
Destroy me with what looks like love
I'm too easily tempted by that lure
Every fisherman on the Adriatic
Had only to loop their heart on a line and dangle it over the sea
To watch the last, weeping siren come to have a look
And take the bait
Though I remember the burn of the hook
The tug that dragged me from the depths
I don't breathe air
Don't give yours to me
It was only gentility that ever ignited my veins
The innocence of your eyes, sea green like home
I have never blamed any man
I know what I do
To reject an affection...
I would rather die starving for oxygen
Immolating in the salt from hands and naiveté
Than empty
And alone
But I've waited long on the rocks for the one
Who would simply come swimming with me
Who would ask for nothing
But one sun-drenched kiss
And a dawn in the blue where the sun rises from within the waves
With me
I can give you nothing
If I'm a possession
But my heart is too mangled and needy
To beg you not to gather me to you
I've only prayed that somehow you would guess
Not to hold with the fingers and the arms
But with the electricity
Streaming between us in music waves
Touch me with the hand
And there are only broken pathways
That as you run their course
Bring more saltwater
I remember when they've been run once before
And the pain that flooded every sense even as I surrendered without a fight
So touch me with the softness of your soul
Come into the deep water
Forget yourself in the ocean
Drown in my love