We caught butterflies in our eyelashes that night
Long woven traps of fraud intricacies
They were so beautiful
The way the sweat,
the heat of the night glistened off their lightly dusted wings.

The skies played symphonies in our heads
The constellations we traced in the grass
The blank slates lying in our fingertips waiting to be drawn
Maps lying up and down our legs

We sailed in the red waters, tasting the murky fog
weaving through our hair
between interlocked fingers
through the tear ducts of our eyes
came the sharp taste on the tip of your tongue.

I liked the way you looked at me
As if the dry sands spraying in my throat could cease
The skies would whisper sweet reminders
that there is no such thing as tomorrow

And the look in your eyes would say it all.
The dancing light reflecting the ignited air between us,
The desire,
The butterfly traps in our eyelashes
The maps of our skin
The currents of our breath
The curiosity of our eyes
The way the grass rolled over us that night and the air smelled so sweet
The prickling beads beneath our nails reaching up
wanting to learn
wanting to hold
wanting to learn to hold

Golden dusted snakes threatened our sanctuary
Turned this estranged love
We rolled into the earth that night
Our dirt smeared faces
The melodic notes you sang as laughter sailed from your lips
The off key waft through linoleum covered walls
Crippling plastered glares on the walls of our safe house
Lined fingerprints with blood
Traced in a line up and down

We caught butterflies in our eyelashes that night
A disastrous harmony
And our eyes were drawn to the skies
whispered it's crooked replies
We set them free