Remembering the Rest (Interlude)

The way his lips parted to sound my name  Felt like song and dance He was a musical without the accolades I hung on every note We performed together nightly Starting with interludes on my jawline He left pitches in the pit of my throat Never did he choke on the words "I love you" He said it with his fingertips on my piano keys of a back  He had a stroke not out of tune  He knew the lyrics to the song before they were written Our set was in production  We could see our nomination for the "greatest love story ever performed”  Strum these pains with your fingers Let it hurt a little  I want to be in sync and sink in all that you are in all that I am I don't want amnesty Jailbird me Bar me inside your rib cage So I can rest and lie where all your secrets and desires do To study you Lively... nothing can make you feel more awake and dreaming than when our skin fills one another with each other's essence We breathe  You are a hallucinogen and I have on a gas mask Inhale you until I can taste you like I haven't eaten all day You satisfy a physiological need I thought I was complete  I didn't realize how half I was until I found you See you make me write love poems for days Sex poems at night  Hate poems in the morning  Laughter in the afternoon And It isn't that we love It's how we love Little time to the human clock, but we make seconds tick like hours  Condemn me to a lifetime of our musical So, we can sing and dance when your lips part and sound my name I can't remember the rest…