This Is Love

Reading between these tandem, pivotal hearts

trying to be where you are

trying to leave before the release

the water



try to write down all the things I repeat all the time

trying to force it to rhyme

but letting it lead, letting it breathe

the oxygen



a tongue on teeth, the soul beneath



science and warmth

go forward, go forth

to the East to the North

this is love


to the question, to the shore

to the cancer, to the cure

this is what we’re living for

this is love

Meet me in the back room in the heat of the day

we don’t need a reason to stay

coffee and flame, it became

the fire

Oh, you know it’s a rare thing

and I don’t mean to stare

but you’re there, breathing in

the oxygen