beautiful with your eyes like that
beautiful with your skin like that
you moved and moved and moved
searching for the elusive

the elusive with its aches of yearning
the elusive with its untold promises
and lack of desire to grant mercy

and delved in

plans thoughts and rosters
laid out
layed out
staid in side
stayed inside

beautiful with your eyes like that
beautiful with your skin like that
that small of the back
that arm relaxed

relaxed over the music
not the servant nor the lord it promised to be
and even then ceasing to offer relief
for the numbing

but

beautiful with your eyes like that
and beautiful with your skin like that
the arm all relaxed
leading to the small of the back

it was in the private places love was learned
the armpit
the tail of the spine
about 5 hours in a lifetime

growing beautiful by the day
packed in boxes under the bed
old shoes
rightful place
rightful time