How to Know You're in Love

Go ahead
And try and swallow
This that my lover and I
Have come to know
This precious flotation
Try and drown our fingers
Interlaced
And our laughter
Booming
Just don't expect little storms
And pithy domestic bullshit
To drown us.
We have both been taught
Separately
How to float.

Rest

Please call me
So you can talk to
The back of my neck
My earlobes
My waist
The backs of my knees
My hands
My forehead
And their friends
Because they all miss you so much
That I cannot sleep
For all of their howling
I need rest
And as if I didn't know it already
I cannot rest 
Without you here 
Calming the places 
On my body
That cry out 
For you

Yours

Stick your tongue inside
The places on me you own
And taste what is yours

Oh, Ice

This ice drips off trees
And hits my heart. But, oh, ice
I am too in love

Laughing

I love you
And, wow! That was fast
But I'm just that ass
Never cared what they asked
Of me
To patiently
Wait bend and knee
For 23 years
To confess
Whats in my chest
I've kept
Restlessly
But I'll take the blame
Go down in flames
As the flash in the pan
Romantic
And no one will need
To know our secret
That its entirely your fault
Because you captured me
Mercilessly
With persistence
I couldn't ignore
You on the dance floor
And fuck if that sounds
Systematic
Two gay addicts
In habit
Following words to a song
And sing right along
Find words, then love
So what?
So...wow.
And up until now
I've ignored the crowds
I've let them be
Let them come for me
But for this I've got you
To answer to
And since I love the truth
Here goes
I have rushed and not strolled
Because that's how I rolled
But not anymore
Now I'm steady
And what I knew before
Seems now nothing more
Than what I ignored
As they told me
I didn't know how
What I know now
Could change me
I feel like a man
Understanding
The first benefits
Offered to him
By his past
Because I finally see
How happy...is free
And shouldn't cost me
A dime
My mind
My behind
But should pay
And pay
In ways
That change
The stage
Of my play
To a place
I can feel loved
And not rushed
So lets laugh
And crash
Lets laugh
And last
Forever
And still choose to ignore
All of those boring
Orders
To ease on in
Gentle beginnings
Lets run laughing to
The stories that you
Will tell in the future
Of how we met with a bang
Loved 'til insane
And burned with a flame
That remains
How we never could hear
How fast loved appeared
Because we were too busy
Laughing

Protection

It wasn't a whisper
Because your booming
Protective voice
Can easily soothe my butterfly
Heartbeat
But still could never
Whisper
It wasn't whispered
When you laid down beside me
And told me how much you couldn't
Wait for us to grow old together
You couldn't wait for our two children
So why would I whisper
My response?
YES!
Yes.
I will wake one day
I know
From a night of pillow talk
Just like tonight's
To the sound of our boy
Rummaging and exploring
And go to him
With you
And laugh with him
With you
At what he's gotten into
And the combination
Of the love we lacked as little boys
Ourselves
Will overwhelm
His tiny little heart
And our little girl will join us
Protected in strength
By you
And in her bold female identity
By me
She will realize with each tomboy
And girlie girl
Playtime
That she is incredible
As herself
And deserves love
Just because
We will do our best
To whisper in their ears
Each night
Just why it is
They are the center of our world
The world we created together
That night
That you spoke softly in my ear
Of forever

Enough

I'm looking into your skin
That echoes out a great deal
Of the arguments you are making
For a soft, tender power
To hold the world in a headlock
Until it laughs "Enough!"
I forgot the sheets
I forgot my place
My circulation
And what we were talking about
I forgot where we were
Just now
Because of just that
Just
Now
I just remembered your skin
Again and again
While I do my best to tumble
In your warm air-fluff cycle
And remember
It will be okay
Without depending on your exhaled
Cozy reminders that
You've got my protection
My body
My heart-hunger
Covered
So that
I can
Only enjoy those life rafts
Bobbing with reassurance
Without needing them
I cling to you until
I am confident
There is no way to be closer
I make my way from your skin
To your hair
To your teeth
To your full lips
And wait forever
To finally have
Enough

Reach

I sit with my eyes closed
A blank slate
Surrounded by white
And lightness
A perfect meditation
And remember
One at a time
Each note to the sound
Of the song
Of your voice
I build your image
One bend
One ripple
One vein
At a time
Paying close attention
To your lashes
Each one of each one of
Your eyes
And how they are the most magnificent
And furthest reaching...
Drawing me into your eyes
And brushing my blushing cheek
From across oceans
And thousands of miles away
Where you stand beneath
Flags waving my name
And undoubtedly reach
To brush your soft square fingers
Against them
As you walk under
A rainbow
And feel protection
As I feel protection
From the rain
I reach out to your image
Perfectly reproduced
Accurate
Heart breaking
And feel homesick
For wherever it is
You are