Heart

Deep, sheltered far beneath the layers

Called skin, muscle and bone

Protected, enshrouded

Safe in your home

Chained in the crevasse where once…

Where once upon a time blood moved swift

Dancing in time to the beat of a heart

Swirling red as a cloak of scarlet

Tapping rhythm of feet on a dance-floor

Breathe in and calm

This frantic horse-race

Pounding in your breast

Enshrouded, you lie chained

Wrapped in this pulsating, red flesh

Close your eyes and breathe

Watch through my orbits

Cool your flame and control

This ardor, this bright,

This summertime of desirous pulse

Lit like asbestos touched with a match

Gentle this river

Of living crimson

Your heart-womb in its expansion

Contraction, amiable and indifferent

Pressing this hot kinship

Haemal rushing

Ripping, roaring- tearing- eating

Life-you consume me

In blazing glory, vainglorious muse,

Glistening sunshine dapples on the scarlet sheen

Life to live and live again lost beneath

The roaring rage of torrential love

This flood of emotion, lit by

Amber sunlight dripping from lilies

The completion of existence…

(c) 2012 Marlo Fleek