Band
Let me hold you, love, like love holds disease,
breathing the essence of one another,
like a lover taking you in their arms
calming fears you don’t yet know you feel.

Stone
Like a light, after light, I am water;
an ever-coiling skein of refraction
turning, churning this thermotropic surf.

when you kiss me I am water
when you hold me I am water
when you hate me
when you kick me

when you curse me I am water
when you touch me I am water
when you taste me I am water
when you take me
when you turn me
when you break me I am water

Violet, blue, green, yellow, brown, grey, black.
Back to back with brokenness I am trapped;
water damage more a damning of water.

After
Years after, I found that small black disc
silent as remembrance and cold with sleep.
I squeezed it in my palm for that fleeting glimpse
of fear and passion before the lights went
out.