Birthday Poem

Birthday Poem

The way I love
Is my way

I give to you
My love offerings

I wait 
Longingly
For you to unwrap
My gifts
Crafted for you

Alone

I wait
For you to unravel 
My myths 

I wait
For you to ravish 
My lips
My hips

Circle the moon
Building and building
Curling and winding

I wait for you
To resolve my complexity
To find my irony

I wait
For you
Indefinitely

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You ask me who I am
I'm proud to say
No longer can I answer
With contrived responses to fill your expectations

Fear does not well up, that I am not enough
No need to hide emptiness
When I've been filled to the brim
Uncovered, I have been

Released from pretense and pleasantries
I don't need
To be
Anything
More

I already am
Ironically, I can never be more

I am a treasured jewel.
I am a masterpiece.
I am a mirror.
I am a gift.

I am everything
I'm supposed to be
Already
Won't you meet me here?

Pleasure

No shame, no distortions

Inside my depths
I have embraced
The selfishness of my proclivities

Thick with flesh, I beg
Fill my life, every nook and cranny
Drenched in what pleases me
I am greedy

One could argue the immaturity of this state
I call freedom

The earth understands me
Sun beams touch my skin over and over
I come back for more
I always want more

Accept
I am first an animal
Feeding my basest instincts
Only the things I know and you won't speak
Nourish me

I choose life
Over a mechanical deadness
I choose sensations, breathlessness
I abandon intellect and rationality - responsibility
Deeply, I stir
Flirting with liberation

The danger inching forward
feels so good
Ineloquent
 Magnetic, electric
Real and intense
Satisfying

Overwhelmed, I am full
Releasing all inhibition
In this moment
I am the most

I can be