Cautious Tranquility

I trace constellations on your skin

With lips that yearn for guidance  

Making connections between breaths

With kisses that barely brush

Then linger on soft sweetness.

I hesitate,

Then contemplate the Maker’s design

Lines that intertwine

And intersect our interaction

Setting once parallel figures

On a course of collision.

Colluding shadows of mirth and mire

Muddle our once cacophonous minds

With medleys of satiated cries

Echoing the once silent walls

Within our hearts

Leaving impressions of something more

Than ink or stone can recognize.