Valentines Day Poem

Passionless saints tie our lips together
and I crush our voice in my hands
Lift the nape of your neck
and breathe you in, hush
(you fill the air).
Godless gospels
pass through us
while the night stumbles
gently on
You dream in a dark
wine sea
and I drift helplessly
after
finding words at midnights
to memorise for you
only to keep them locked secretly
with love on my tongue.
You are my love letter
curling naked in the heat
your spine beautiful and bare
as our unlaced feet.

Our shadows touch
a leaf falls on itself.
pink dusk spreads across the sky
farewelling the dark storm
of your hair across the sleepy pillow.
The sound of you breathing
echoes in my chest.

I collapse you in my lungs
like a script
madness takes us with love
and holds us close.
A whisper into the coming sun,
flowers of colour
that melt soft over the sky
like the blush of you
And I
drift
helplessly after