Bare

For you I’d send my body to battle
my body, let my blood sing of tearing

itself apart, the hollowing cords
of the white knights’ intravenous joist.

love, I want & barely know how
to do much else. Don’t speak to me

about the raid you could loose on me
a clan of drunk rebel cells who thirst

to watch their home burn. love,
let me burn if it means you

& I have one night with no barrier
but skin. This is not about danger

but about faith, about being wasted
on your name. If love is a room

of broken glass, leave me to dance
until my feet are memory.

If love is a hole wide enough
to be a god’s mouth, let me plunge

into that holy dark & forget
the color of light. Love, stay

in me until our bodies forget
what divides us, until your blood

is my blood & your hands
are my hands, until our names

are the same song & our life’s work
be to lay & be, hum & die.