Unravel

Unravel yourself

In pieces to me

Till your sweetness

Lays upon my tongue. 

Let me see the beauty

Of your night.

The way the moon

Illuminates the imperfect

Lines on your face.

Unfold your heart

Into the palms

Of my wanting hands

Revealing everything

Along the folds that

You feel you must hide

To belong to me,

To be loved

in this world.

I am not a child,

And I do not wish for fairy tales

Of glittering castles and gowns.

Instead, one glimpse

If what is raw and real

Revealed

Satisfies a lifetime

Of my curiosity.

And too,

Bring me also truly to you.

Bare skin.

Place your trembling lips

To the mouth of

My unsheathed soul 

and taste.

Leave the subtle alchemy

of what remains 

to its own devices,

its own fusion,

Offering only, 

Witness.

-Artemis Mandala