Rambling Roads 🏵

I feel the brush of your breath wild in my ear like the crash of the ocean whispering from a shell. Coiled snake unfurls spiraling warmth swells, rising to sink her fiery fangs in my chest.   Head thrust back, she consumes her own tail in relentless resurrection.   Swaying in trance, your hand cradles the small of my back.   our bodies rock in unison, an intimate choreography only discovered as it unfolds.   Your presence grounds me, sparking chispas soothed like melting wax we merge, stretching tall and lofty towering like a gnarled, ancient tree, rough bark scarred with the blades of past lovers but our entwined roots sink deep into rich tilled soil, watered with tears of both sorrow and joy.   But our arms still stretch hopeful with the possibility of open sky, I reach tiptoe to taste the softness of your lips.   You surge regal as a mountain.   Raw strength countered by my rushing riv...

“I do not need you, I choose you!” I bellow.   Diaphragm contracting, forcing the air violently out of my lungs in every asthmatic’s last ditch effort to create space enough to inhale, gasping erratically. As if to prove the veracity of my words, my feet pound out Kali’s dance of destruction crumbling my temple of refuge to rubble yet again. Anklets jingling, tongue protruding, skulls clanking. But her right arm extends protectively around me. “Fear not!” “This too shall pass.” The audacity of a flower peeking out between the cracks of fallen stone “Rest in my strength and know with certainty you will be reborn.” I inch ever closer to center with each wild orbit of the spiral. Look at the muscle in my arm!   The bulge of my thigh The fortitude that reverberates in this proud chest!   Why would anyone want a puppy dog to follow them around and not a powerful consort to dance with?   Where is my warrior?   Brave e...