Traces

Happy poetry is erotic poetry,

words whisper from writer to reader

caressing every inch of their body.



Because maybe life isn’t so bad,

if writing can make you feel so good.

Inhaling, exhaling, trembling, tossing, turning, waking up, screaming, loving and living is what a poem is.



Writing a sad poem is easy, because sad is a state and happy is a hit.

Its something that happened but you can’t imagine the feeling again until you take another.

Sobriety is disposable, the moments are re-creatable.



Moments of substance is something more, filled perfect circumstances and dilated pupils.

They are awkward giggles and foreplay, it leads up to the climax, its clarity.

Ruffling sheets, accidental poking and bruising,  hair pulling, skin grabbing, jaw clenching, and sweaty moments.



Thoughts that will rise up again in your sick little head and make you wonder if you can ever feel this good.

Waiting is withdrawal because you want one more hit you want that high forever.



And when its all over readers’ fingers trace up and down their skin

to try to remember what it felt like,

because shivers and goosebumps from something written is worth reading again.

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