Making Up
No more words,
They have melted away unsaid,
Like dregs of lager
Sliding to the bottom of tall glasses;
Gobs of froth, drops of amber,
Eyes that watch and wait
For you to climb the stairs,
Sure that I would follow.
The room is stacked
With blocks of colour
A 3D Mondrian
Vibrant and opaque.
The bed, a blue rectangle
Lacks sympathy
With my curving desires;
Our body prints dimple the mattress
Oval beans in a pod.
You draw the curtain
And blot out the windows,
Sunlight dapples us with curtained roses
Expanding and receding in the breeze.
Now is our moment,
We are self conscious
Vulnerable, new found,
Our clothes strewn around us
Like sloughed off skin.
They have melted away unsaid,
Like dregs of lager
Sliding to the bottom of tall glasses;
Gobs of froth, drops of amber,
Eyes that watch and wait
For you to climb the stairs,
Sure that I would follow.
The room is stacked
With blocks of colour
A 3D Mondrian
Vibrant and opaque.
The bed, a blue rectangle
Lacks sympathy
With my curving desires;
Our body prints dimple the mattress
Oval beans in a pod.
You draw the curtain
And blot out the windows,
Sunlight dapples us with curtained roses
Expanding and receding in the breeze.
Now is our moment,
We are self conscious
Vulnerable, new found,
Our clothes strewn around us
Like sloughed off skin.
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