I Sunpress My Love (Poem)

A poem to a moody lover

I Sunpress My Love

The sun presses
Against me 

I squint, &
Peer away 

The audacity 
To slide onto 
My skin
And remind me 
Of warmth 

When all this week 
Winter Wind 
Tried to strangle 
That very thing 
Out of me 

Where were you then? 
How am I to know
That I’m not just 
Some living rock
For you to lay your rays on? 

What gives you the right
To rise in my face everyday 
And be so temperamental?

I want your breath
To light up my skin,

I’d love for you to stay,
But you never do. 

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