SandScript 2023 [Digital Exclusive]

My Doubts are Quiet (When I’m With You)
Marii Ink
You say I’m blessed with skin kissed by the sun,
Adorned by Luna
Undefined, and unrivaled
Honeyed with a sweetness
To my skin, you seem not to get enough of
Yours I say in between
Lips slotted in a 2-step as the record softly plays out
The vestiges of my love
Our love you say
As the night trails on, the tingle from your caress
The warmth laced into the words pressed against my back
Almost searing its permanent home into not only
My pigmentation
But deeper into my very being.
Luna blesses us,
Through the wisps of her approval in the form of
Frosty wind kissing our bare shoulders
Basking in the love of our youth
In the dim light of your room
Your world so far from mine,
I recall, tracing a light shape
One of no direction but the thought
Brands it’s home onto you now.
Speaking
Of nothing, and everything I can’t say
On your lighter, exposed body.
And yet it is in these moments of soft whispers,
And dimmed rooms that feel on the tad bit of too warm,
That maybe
Just maybe,
Ibelievethatyousaywhatyouare,
Mine.
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