Tempted...

Too touch you
for you to touch me

Ready to draw a line
just so you can cross it
erase it
misplace it
Shit throw it away

Damn you smell good
Live in the surburbs
but I'll move to the hood
too be close to you
half of you
most of you
any bit of you

So happy to be
playful
a night full
of piggy back rides
All giddy up
when you come around
I must be a clown
cheeks red
dreaming of lying in a bed
I've never even seen
take me there

Put that damn line behind us
because
I think I've already crossed it

©Tia L. Clarke 2010

Cry

And it dropped

that tear trapped in the corner of your eye
held there for eternity
to prove to me
you were too much of a man
to cry

rather fight it
hide it
than to let it slide
out the corner of your eye
©Tia L. Clarke 2010

With A Stranger

you bring out
the geek
in me


glasses
suspenders
pocket protectors

weakens me
to

smell you
sniff you
with you

feels so good

to walk
through green grass
or on pink sand


while
your scent surrounds me
liberated by your presence
clinging to your words
like birds on limbs
of a tree

I can fly
when I'm with you
but

I don't even know who you are

©Tia Clarke 2011