Love in My Face

some people may say we have a love based on lust

they see our never wandering eyes

our forever wandering hands

our constant lips

they see our locked eyes

our locked hips

our locked tongues

they see us wild

they see us play

they see the language of my extremities

the conversation in your stare

what they don’t see

is me devouring your nighttime

inhaling your memoir and the scent of you when I was little

reaching for more of you with my mouth through talk

blinking less and seeing more

hearing less and wanting more

they don’t see

your eyelashes grow slow

they don’t see your sweat sleeping through July

they don’t see your t-shirt collection

or lack thereof on my account

they don’t see you smile when taquitos are fresh out

your smile when I call you baby

your smile when I tell you how much I've missed you

and it's been ten minutes

your laugh when its something on TV

or your laugh when my mom said something funny

or your laugh when I said something funny

or your laugh when you can't stop

and we can't stop

and we're in love

they don’t see you love so profoundly

yet so carelessly and easily

or maybe they do

that’s you

they don’t know what it feels like when you call me m’lady

they don’t know what it feels like when you say my name

they don’t know waking up to your tired eyes and messy hair

what it's like when you whisper

when you talk in the voice

when you hold me for nothing

when you hold me for everything

when you try not to laugh

when you take ten minutes and I take two

or when you take two and I take ten…

when you call me unpredictable

when you say you’ll sex me into forever

when you grab my bum and whisper dirty,

beautiful things into my hair

they don’t know your lips against my neck

behind my ear

they don’t know the shiver

when I touch you

the tips of my fingers burn

my palms are slaves

to your chest

your back

your palms

your face

addicted

my hands

completely devoted to your skin

when you touch me

something inside of me floods

my skin has climaxed

you are aphrodisiac in human form

you breathe sexy

you exhale sexy

I want you sexy I love you sexy forever sexy

it would be impossible to explain to anyone what it feels like

when you tell me I'm beautiful

No one could possibly know

what it has been like to love you

everyone must know what it is like to lust you

but not when our foundation was built first on real

and then was wall to wall infatuation

and an overbearing amount of love at firsts

and being in love

like us

and there is no way to truly describe

in love

like us

or even really being in love with you

feverish love

the heat in the cervices of our bedrock

seeps into our last touch before the end of today

it keeps us warm when you’ve frozen time

it keeps my cheeks pink and certain

and forever

they will all see what forever looks like

and we will forever know what forever

feels like.