Freckles

Freckles

i love to see you in the light too bad the dark is the only time i get to look

i want to look in the light to process your body and etch it into my mind to see the universe in your wide eyes shining in that blanket of black night hidden behind walls, closets, and doors

this house is paper thin, if we aren’t careful it threatens to fall apart and reveal us together in that safety of the dark

trace scars and freckles map them on your back. this dark oval that is the place where i keep our secrets which is why it is bigger. a light brown circle (only known by me, i know it’s true) is so small that the only thing that it can bear to hold are the number of places where we are safe. this one over here, to the right a little that one has a couple other freckles around it, connecting them together that is the list of things i wish to give you. and this one down here to the left keep going there! that one shows me the way, where to love you.