December 9th- on a drive with my family

Rain smear across my face

Force me to embrace this empty space

I've discovered within my womb

Help me deny the lie that it is only a tomb

Like trees so old you aren't sure leaves will return

So it is within my soul, that bit of heart that dares to yearn

For more to fill me than I've allowed before

To recall how sweet it is to be so empty, leaving space for him to restore

I will dare to slide beneath the surface of an ocean of choices you now set before me

My wet skin burns in the realization that i was the one who let freedom just be a dream

I use my skin to be what confines all that could escape, slipping past the crevice of my eyes

Here in the quiet of me, here is where you hear my heart cry

Savor my tears that do not taste bitter, ones that sing sweet like wide open sky

Slow is how you steal upon me, soft and kind arms wrap me up

Waiting for the wet i ever am to fall upon your skin

Such soft secrets, whisperings your eternal shape begs me to find

If this is the pain that proves true a way i could not see

I open wide my mouth, in a tearful yes, that you would show me

Come for me tonight love,

You will find my window open and my heart awake within my spirits dream

While excitement inside dares me to find my scream

Your finger interrupts your lips, echoing words we have yet to say

A few short hours, that's all i desire, safe in the secret space of you

I climb down the brick wall with you,

Trusting i will be returned before the morning ground begins to dew