Work Text:
Sweetness
Why do you always do this?
Crawl out of bed
When you can’t sleep?
You can stay
If you’re feeling restless
I sleep heavy anyway
Well, unless you’re not around
Then I get restless, too
🌕
God, you’re beautiful like this
Seeing the moonlight
Creeping along your body and
The shadows it casts against your skin
The way your belly sits in your lap
How your hips spill out over the
Arms of your favorite chair
🌕
We might have to make
A new chair for you
To better accommodate
How you’ve grown
Forwards and sideways
And all that
I said that out loud, didn’t I?
🌕
I love you like this
Soft, heavy, tactile
Like you’re not going to
Float off into the cosmos
And crumble into stardust
God, remember our first time?
We were so small, hestitant, fragile
I feared I’d that shatter you
Like cheap glass
You thought I’d hide
If you so much as tried
Raking your fingers through my hair
We were scared
By how much
We’d hurt each other,
The people we loved,
And people we didn’t even know
But more than that
We were scared
By how much
We still loved each other
After everything we’d done
Think we have a better handle on that now
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I’m trying
Learning, really
To love the shape
Of our lives together
And how that’s manifested
On my body
It shouldn’t be this hard
Loving myself like this
Knowing I’m not going to
Be pushed around by anyone
It’s hard, though,
Being in a body that
I didn’t choose for myself
But still need to look after
With all the tenderness
And boundless love
I treat others
And you with
And if you're willing
I want you to love me about it