All of love’s roads lead back to vulnerability

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Surrender

To love is to suffer

to endure

most of us would do anything for love

to be loved

even if love is a grave.

Consume me until I am nothing but you

then lick my wounds with the most tender affection

nobody has ever desired me so passionately.

Do with me what you will

I am yours

to nurture

or break.

What is love

if not surrender?

Reverence

I memorize the scripture of your skin with my lips

refute me always in the darkness of your absence

sacramental is my calling out for you

haunted by your spirit

your power unyielding and infinite.

Immolation of myself in your tests of faith

embers of hope extinguished

void of grace

Fool, am I, in my worship?

Blind, have I, become to your control?

Yearn, I do, for your beckoning

maker of my mind's creation

my thoughts irreverent, secular

for the flesh is better.

Fill the hallowed hole in my existence

my purity is yours and yours alone

lamb to your knife

I get down on my knees

and start my benediction

in hopes that you take me to the promised land.

Ideal Confessor

I could lay by your side forever

no words, no movement

just pure, unadulterated bliss

cradled in the comfort of your presence

I don't know what I did to deserve such peace.

Together, we can simply exist

and that is enough.

Take me just as I am

dirty, rotten, used

and I will take you just the same.

We laugh in the face of our imperfections

as we barrel towards the sun.