I feel very nervous about this...

[celebelei]

So, I occasionally write poetry. I showed one to coeurdesoleil and she liked it, so I thought I'd share some of them with the rest of you. All of these were originally written in Finnish and I translated them, so hopefully they still make sense.

First off is the one that I showed to
coeurdesoleil, because it was inspired by her awesome Marcus/Esca ear!porn fic (go read it, it's wonderful!).

Every night you come over me
like a wave
overpowering and yet so gentle
your voice echoing around my ribcage
the way you can hear an ocean
surge in a sea shell

Your fingertips are branding irons
on my hips, my neck
wrapping around my wrists
like the most beautiful pair of shackles
and the salt from your lips
is sweetly burning my tongue

And when dawn breaks
my palms are filled with half moons
blood moons
that spell out your name

~*~

I hate
days that have not begun yet

The hours are all the same
gray, sliding moments
the minutes sticky on my skin

A desolate face in the mirror,
my pain staring back at me
with eyes like yours

~*~

The rain spells your name on the window
and longing cuts across my temple

We were left with too much
silence
miles of unsaid words between us

Sheets screaming with emptiness
fingertips
that strayed on foreign skin
and abandoned coffee cups

The glass is cold against me
but not as cold as you

~*~

The taste of yesterday in my mouth;
disappointment
and one too many cigarettes

It's a bitter taste
and entirely too familiar
because I'm still not yours

~*~

You fit between my hips
like a long lost
piece

Never before
have I been this full
and finally
there

~*~

Today
a sleepy stillness
is waving in me

Fingers
sail alone along the sheets
and yearning does not
break
the vastness of my skin

~*~

My skin is falling away from me
in small pieces

it's tired of being
untouched, quiet
and much too timid

If I could
I would wear your teethmarks
like jewerly

Hope you liked them! :)