Butterfly, butterfly
Please come my way
Flutter on over here
Tell me you'll stay.
Let the birds come along
By two they will follow
They mate for life
Two beautiful swallows.
Your siren she flows
Accepting all of her all
Showing any who look
That the body is raw.
Anatomically correct
Your heart sits on your sleeve
Bearing its all to the world
In hopes no one will leave.
Darkened heart, stained in full
You've visited before
The only one I know of
Given life once more.
Your hand draws my eye
Hold your cross to my lips
Looking up to you all the while
As I take sip after sip.
Will you stop when I surrender
By asking can I stay
Might as well you answer
On my words you will play.
Things I can, things I can't
It doesn't matter anymore
No one can see them now
Past the point to restore.
Take that rose and please wrap it
Securely round my neck
Squeeze tightly with assurance
Make sure I won't forget.
Your fragrance engulfs my senses
the thorns tangle in my hair
I've never minded the pain less
It's worth all I'll have to bear.
You'll whisper softly in my ear
All the phrases I wish to hear
That sultry rumble soaking in
Wiping my mind completely clear.
Your skeleton smiles behind my back
But he's not all black and white
One of the few you've chosen
To have some colored insight.
Delicate anchor, land steadfast
Swimming in a sea of flowing
Hold me securely to him in place
Let me decide when it's time to be going.
I can see the ship sailing
So closely now to my face
My heart beats like thunder
I can't sustain this pace.
I'm pulling away, I must be going
Though there's one more I wish to see
Some permanent ink on a paper sheet
That you share only with me.
Each one I hold dear
As if stitched as mine own
A special meaning I've assigned
To each its own tone.
All of your ink has meaning
Like pages in a book
Some easy to decipher
Upon one's first look.
Others dwell below the surface
Awaiting a time
When your mouth will give reason
To the pen and its rhyme.
