We Are All Satellites

Your hair cascades down your shoulders like water

Over the terrain of peaks and valleys that shift

With every heaving and falling of you

You're less than an arm's length from me

But from what I've always known about the

People I've loved is that we are all

satellites.

Perpetually in orbit around each other

We circle, never able to touch

Forced into the laws of gravity and

relativity.

There's parts of you I cannot reach

Not with my fingers, my mouth, my breath

Your kiss remains employed in another state

And this, like the rules of light and shadow

I cannot change.

I find myself trying to let you go even

Before I get the chance to cave inward

From the weight of your sweet embraces and

stolen kisses

As you sleep I write this message on the

Small of your back over and over again

With the fingertips of the tiny little hands

You love so much

erase me

erase me

erase me