La Petite Mort

-------La Petite Mort-------

Forgiving hunger

we make love on an empty stomach,

and our ghosts filter
and fill us to that point of perfect contentment.

At night,

while the Great Star is dancing on the other side,

a little death carries us

to the very edge of living;

to where light meets the darkness

and there is nothing to hold onto or fear.
This absence and your eyes

rise a smile from my heart,

for within them is the emptiness
I have worked so hard trying to find,

starving myself and digging through fields
someplace else,

but it has always been right here

with you,
and I
and us, together.

Communion
like this

ensures
there will never be an end.

Love
like this
is an eye
clearly seeing the world.

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