Mississippi Love Song by Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
Vulnerability is the skill to Remove your emotional jacket and feel The chill of someone else’s eyes on your soul But the conversations that follow Will spark a flame around your heart Until it becomes a blazer So when her and I talk We are never cold I feel her hands sink into the creases of my ribs She knows a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach Her gated lips protect with passion But if I knock hard enough with mine I hope to coax her tongue From defense to strike me down with a kiss Her front is tough, The twang in her speech Are vice grips So every time she speaks Her words cut through my barbwire vision Allowing me to see love without pain She reminds me of Begging for answers and actually receiving them Her hugs, like pillows Soft, No judgment She sleeps next to me face to face That way when I awake she is there to make my nightmares know her by name And when I return to dreamland the worst that can hap57
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