'Night'

Night,

You asked that I suck away your silence

that you now live on the outskirts of yourself. So/

I began with our weakness

Your  ni**les:

black but pliant - pointy! 

I tongued both with

my teeth,

here   and   there

You s w e l l e d,   

and 

woke in your spine/

I swam through like splitting 

B

  ree

ze stitching

myself

back into your eyes/

Exacerbation from my

subtle plough 

tore y  o  u

into s h  ards of shades/

Oh night!

You are a tide,

your silence soaked me/

I

Sai

      led

to your navel, 

down

        to the valley

between your thigh-bone 

you ar ch ed! 

and ached in your teeth/

Sensation pained you!

you howled, and br oke

into vowels...

amassing back

like sands, blood and brine/

Nights, you! - you

vomited me away

from your eyes/

I strained my lips

Against yours

Our teeth

spoke for themselves

Your tongue

confronted mine/

You moaned with the moon,

murmuring my name/

Dear Night, it’s dawn/

© Olamilekan Okebiorun (SonOfHisHeart)