matchbook sonnet
Your bodyheat caught me unprepared,
the acrid burn of hell and heaven
as our elbows touched, I was consumed.
Defined by intensity, we played
pretend, lips sealed in understanding:
to match is not to go together.
Alone, I am incomplete, jagged
edge catching on the delicate gauze
our story wears in such circumstance.
You are my everyday devotion,
the scripture I carry in my hand,
fingerprints left on piano keys.
On the horizon a meteor
flares and disappears. We are done.
Your bodyheat caught me unprepared,
the acrid burn of hell and heaven
as our elbows touched, I was consumed.
Defined by intensity, we played
pretend, lips sealed in understanding:
to match is not to go together.
Alone, I am incomplete, jagged
edge catching on the delicate gauze
our story wears in such circumstance.
You are my everyday devotion,
the scripture I carry in my hand,
fingerprints left on piano keys.
On the horizon a meteor
flares and disappears. We are done.