Broken Blinds

Light sneaks through the blinds

It crawls across the carpet until it finds

Your bare chest above my own

It’s the glare of the spotlight and we are alone

Uncertain

Some force tells us to keep going

To move along and continue knowing

From your body to mine and back again

With a jolt, a pinch, are we still friends

Can we be with this energy between us

Can conversation continue laced with lust

Always burning just under the surface

Will I crave a smile-one last taste

The protection of your arms

Even as something inside rings an alarm

To turn around and push through the dark

To pretend you haven’t seen the real me-stark

Naked revealed uncovered blemished and true

For me to pretend I haven’t seen the same from you.

I can’t regret what we’ve shared

I cannot gauge how much, how little you care

I’ll wonder what it will take to infiltrate

To break apart or bring together; illuminate

What we will become

Now that we’re left with what

we’ve done.