Strip Me

Snatch away my breath

Throw it to the wind

Let it linger on your palm a bit

Until it takes its flight

Like a newly minted bird

Launching off for the first time

Take away my words

Just leave me with the sounds

The ones that wrap around me

Harmonized with you

In the key of admiration

Modulating up to awe

Pave over my eyes

With a foundation concrete

So I can study all of you

With my hungry fingertips

Just ensure the last thing I see

Is your shining face

Chain my heart to you

It will never know another

If you leave it will go

With you, without me

Leaving me to sink into the earth

To fall apart again