Permanence
We kissed
With our tongues clashing,
Sloshy and tangled
Like worms mating in mud -
A consummate attachment
Two fourteen year olds
Could do without.
Our lips, spawning dependency,
They birthed
A gripping bind
Between our most insecure
Souls, our burgeoning lifetimes,
Like strands of weeds
To the dirt.
Each sweet touch, like
Grabbing bruised skin;
So tender, so raw.
Mouths wrestling in fits
Of aggression
Mistaken for passion;
Hard gasps like the
Trading of limited breaths
Through sore and chapped lips,
One giving too much, one
Receiving too little.
It was when our eyes
Synced open,
Shaped like throbbing hearts,
That he kissed me with the
Widest of mouths and
I wished he could
Swallow me whole.
Intoxicated butterflies came
Like blizzards
From the ribs
To the skins of our
Sweating bodies.
His voice ripped with
A sound fooled
For romance, he said
I'm afraid to lose you;
His neck in my grasp
I said I am never gonna
Let you go.
A promise engraved
In my wrist
Like veins,
Like heartbeat.
That
Was all we knew
Love to be -
So poignant,
So permanent.
