Forever Words

 

We found ourselves

At the end 

Of the world

Together

Strangers taking chances

At changing 

Each others last hours 

Our hands at first

Quiet at our sides

Eyes

Searching for something

To be lost in 

To be found in 

Finding

First words

Hesitant hellos 

Go ahead and let the language

Flow

For a little while we were 

Dancing

A dance, precarious at best

Till we let

Each other in

At the end 

Of before it's all that would bring

Any peace for me

And you

And the new we would build

Brick by brick of minutes

Ticked by

Clocks that lived 

In these last moments with us

Laughing omens at us 

Daring my heart 

To be open to us

Seemed like slow motion

Gentle like 

The still of oceans

We with candle lights 

Bright 

Illuminating life 

Closed the distance

Given to us

Movements fluid 

As life flashed before our eyes

We failed happily to fight

The magnetic pull

That lured my lips to yours

And yours to mine

We took our time

Tasted sadness, silence, strawberries, violets, 

sunshine, and stars, 

Soft, foreign, wet, yet 

Somehow

Familiar, and old friend

Found in a kiss 

The mingling of bliss

And spirits

Speaking across skies

Your hands caught the bottom

Of my shirt first

Then your eyes caught mine

Yes, now is fine,

Was the reply 

Then returned 

Shirt over head, body on body

Pressed into bed

Slowly we left 

The remnants of humanity 

Behind 

Along with our clothes 

And our notice of time

You became something else

Inside me

And I became something new

At the wake of you

Simultaneously something

Ancient, something sacred

Waves of ache

Washed through 

This body

That I offered you

Soft

Juxtaposed along those 

Hard edges that you used 

To own 

The last of my sanity 

Naturally 

I imagined

That you had been 

Saving all of this for me 

You had mapped me 

Perfectly

Certainly

This was something 

Beyond our understanding

Handing 

Ourselves over

To each other

Lovers losing our lines 

At the edges of time

Tied to just the trust of

These last few hours

By the light

Of the last moon

I came hard 

Against the heat of

Of you 

Your mouth catching 

Me like snowflakes on your tongue

Melting at the touch

Inviting you to

Sink deep in these

Drifts 

Building as hips lift 

To meet the demands

Of your gifts

We melted then together

Getting closer

To the ends

Before the end

And then the truth

Hit hard 

As bodies 

Arched 

And voices

Scarred the backs of throats

In throes 

Of our most perfect agony

The clarity 

That love achieves

There would always be

An us

Even amid the end 

We had found the secrets 

That time had hid

Eternity granted 

To those who risk

You need only find 

Love

So that you may always 

Live