If love has never left you gasping for air, ripped you apart and stirred your soul - then you have not experienced love, my darling.

- unaiza n, love isn’t always red

I want to do bad things to you, so wild, so rough that I can’t seem to put them in words.

- unaiza n, until the sun begs us to stop

you’re just a knife twisting in my heart, the burning wounds on my skin. I’ve been trying to write about leaving through the rusted door of this never ending July. but I’m so blinded by the ember sunsets, the hazy lights in your eyes. exquisitely miserable for you – I can’t even move one foot out, or finish the empty verse.

- unaiza n, I can’t leave - I don’t want to.

there are still poems, left undone in the book that we didn’t close right. one of us has to keep writing them - one of us has to keep the words bleeding.

- unaiza n, why couldn’t you be the one to keep us breathing?

but what is love if it doesn’t wreck your soul and haunt you?

- unaiza n, ruin me in the name of love, will you?

I’ve created a small town out of my sadness, and named every empty home after you.

- unaiza n, after you.

but my love, I’ve shed much more than just tears for you.

- unaiza n, blood, sweat and ink

* golden thread *

longing,

a tortuous ache -

penetrating pain which reminds me that you are in my bones.

from the first hello, a golden thread appeared. a fire ignited deeply into my blood stream. electric bites under my skin.

euphoric drums banging in my chest, echoing your pulses

feet leaving surfaced land, as we dive freely into the abyss.

your hand in mine is when I realized,

that my soul knew your soul lifetimes ago.

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* soul - tangled *

the creep of longing felt so deeply in my bones

exhaling

clinging to you

releasing all scars

allowing beauty to swallow pain

right here, you’re so close

breathing in my heartbeat

wrapping your soul around me

going deeper

tangled

whispered touches kiss flesh

calm and fire collide

a balance of desire and serenity

engulfing flames as healing waters crash over again and again

in those secret hours,

between the sun and the moon

refuge is found

because of your existence,

do I know love

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* tattooed ache *

I feel your heart

inside my own

pulsing

consistently breathing me back

to life

peace fills me

as I melt into your calm

bare

naked, exposed

I am before you

my layers and skin unravel

in ribbons at your feet

unknown worlds cradled in hands

your song tattooed upon my soul

tasting tears, swallowing laughter

loving in ache

you,

you, my love

you are everything

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* savage *

moonlit tangled sheets

stardust sprinkled

across pillowed dreams

eyes locking my wants to your fervent desire

pulling you into this insatiable reverie

swallowing euphoria

just by inhaling the scent of drunken lustful lips

clenched thighs-throbbing need

beckons bite marks

to commit

the most outrageous sin on your flesh

run your tongue up my soul

bend until we break

licking portions back together

boundaries pushed

and raw rapture exposed

head spinning dizzy

savagely

consuming you whole

until you

only remember my name

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* falling *

your words

dance under my skin

like a prayer and a curse

parting holy waters and feeding fire

my addiction and my cure

the ache in bones

emerge

encased in safety

like a gentle collision

the careful surrounding parchment walls

fall,

disintegrating upon the forest floors

making beauty out of the shadows

the waking universe falls away

as we delve and fly deep into nothing and everything at once

brimming in destiny

love pulsing beyond our worlds

riding upon every unknown wave

finding adventure in uncertainties

only knowing

I would rather fall with you in the dark

than see the honey coated stars

with anyone else

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* wrapped *

I’m wrapped in your fiery ache

loving you in light and darkness,

as the sun loves the stars and crystal moon

enveloping whispers

between the shadows and the realm of the illuminating soul

sheathed flesh

revealed

quaking upon insatiable phantoms

howling with endless craving

pulsing through my chest

each throb vanquished

in plea of you

deep entangling deep

flowing serene waters

I’ll drink from your cup

and swallow the entire ocean

if I shall drown, let it be from the honey

which drips from your tongue

I will come up for breath in the taste

of your mouth

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* a poet *

loving a poet can bring forth

moments of ultimate euphoria,

as well as pain that you feel 

into the depths of your core

poet is the religion and the muse the deity 

for the muse,

you ache, you  please, you desire

while on bended knee

you break

passion consumes

thoughts overflow into words

beauty and pain are seen deeply through the 

mind’s eye,and even more potent

in the depths of the soul

when a poet loves,

every pulse of the heart will cascade

that love will be made immortal 

by the power of words

flesh touched by ink stained hands

making love by the song in which your love created

the melody of words imprinted upon the heart

the lyrics tattooed upon

every inch, every crevasse of the skin

your love becomes a poem

etched under the layers

the memory lingering

long after both hearts depart

your poem is forever aching

under that fine lining burning through

your veins

a poet has a restless heart

say nothing for hours

and never at complete peace

a continuous search within

never completely satisfied

words overflow onto paper

yet there is never a full understanding settled

the mind races, the heart aches

the soul longs

many emotions are never spoken

yet every truth of thought

flows with fluidity through the ink

loving a poet 

is to live constantly on the edge of darkness

but forever, in the light

of beauty

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* music box *

notes floating

melodically

from a measureless distance

calling unto me

euphoric vibrations

trembling my core

soft hums echoing so distinctly

into my deepest chambers

somberly carrying a symphonic euphony

captivating the realms of my heart

the truth of my soul

drawn upon these chords

a resonance of angelic whispers

in which only I can hear

in which only I can feel

removing death, beckoning me to life

a luminous reflection

upon the slowly opening lid

beholding flawless beauty as

magnetic strings effortlessly entangle

such a harmonious sound

of ardent lullabies

fully embraced

within the sacred

music box

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* ethereal *

the darkened honeyed sky

brings your scent to me

a collision of hot and cold

trickling down my spine

as the starlit winds cover me in your heightened pulses

deeply felt melodies

coursing through my veins

melting me into you

I cling to the ethereal rivers

a unison surrender

enraptured

betraying all urgency

descending

I taste every secret, as you cradle every dream

caressing unknown layers

engulfed in tender luminous

you own

the deepest portions of me

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* shift *

the air shifts as we drown in the night winds

the stars dance through your window

moving

I press in closer

wrapping around you

I feel your breath leave slow and shallow at the edge of sleep

knowing your pulses before your heart beats

I lightly kiss the fluttering of your eyelids,

as I slowly trace the fullness of your lips

inhaling all things you

feeling you in my bloodstream

loving you whole

never breathing you out

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* voracious *

my mind is wrapped around your tongue

desiring the taste of you

I’m in so deep

my entire being stays in the space between here and there

eyes closed, head tipped back and my chest full of ache.

the fire of bones

carrying words

crawling across, teasing skin

collapsing walls

creeping into the bloodstream

coursing through veins

charging through fast enough-filling the heart- before it can empty

swelling and bursting

the blood so deafening

I can’t hear a damn thing,

but everything that falls from your lips

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Pic credit - Steve K.

* submerge *

I have fallen into your waters

stars behind my eyes

your words pulling me into a serene lull

enveloped around each layering current

your lungs cradle my breath

as your heart pulses through my veins

all in

drowning slowly

toes never reaching the ocean floor

inhaling liberation

eyes wide open

keep me embraced

in your waves

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* cover *

in an instant you spread through me like wildfire

as my face lay restless upon your clavicle

a creep of longing tumbles across my neck and back

wrapping limbs

pulling in close

now tighter

heated skin from the pressure building

feral and teeming

a calm hurricane

a whispered voice nuzzling my ear

dancing through me,

spinning waltzes in my veins

breath suddenly feeling far too heavy to catch

you see me on purpose, through my skin

bare bones

you are the kind of love that soaks you

pulling you apart from the inside

crashing and ravaging

yet tender and soothing

fingers wrapped in tendrils of loose hair

I find refuge here, in your embrace

you are the light that breaks through

when you come out of the shadows

please, keep me covered

only with you

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