Let love swallow you
Let it imagine you
Let it dream about you
Let it look at you
Let it study you
Let it admire you
and want you
Let it reach for you
Let it touch you
and feel for you in the dark
let it smell you
and inhale you
let its mouth water for you
let it take you between its teeth
and let it saver you
and you damn well better savor it
let it bite you
sink it's teeth in
let it gnaw
and scrape
and tear your flesh a part
Let it chew and gulp
and gasp in between
and grind you into a pulp
that can be digested
and then
let it swallow you
Let it take away your appetite
or move your food through you
whatever the case may be
the way that only love can do
Let it make your head light
and your mind dizzy
and your nights sweaty
allow it to engulf you in flames
Walk the streets with your hair on fire
Don't hold anything back
because abandon is the fuel for desire
Let it take you over completely
and don't you dare feel guilty
let it wash away all of your sins
Can I get an amen
let it rinse out all of your sorrows
in the moments that it can
don't worry, they will still be there tomorrow
and then let it drown you
deep in its ocean
like buried treasure
because
you
are
Let it bury you
deep in the ground
so deep
That the old you will stay there
and only the roots
of the tallest trees
can find you and pull you up
like new-trients
and lift you as high as the tips of the leaves
Let it carry you to the moon and back again
let it take you over
and pull you under
with the forces of tides
that run like currents through your veins
Let it revere you
and become dear to you
Let it take your breath away
fill your heart with play
Let it empty the sky of clouds
and calm the water to its depths
Let it make the world become clear to you
even if for just a moment
Let it fill the night with storms and wind
let it cut you to the core
Let it turn you into the most shameless whore
and liar
and beggar
and cheat
and thief
Let it hurt you
and desert you
Let it crush you
and flush you
with rage
and jealousy
and greed
and grief
Let it bring out the worst in you
It's ok
because it will most definitely
bring out the best in you
and we can endure the worst
if the best is yet to come
and it is
It always is
Let it float to the surface
in the wake of the aftermath
Let love rebuild your belief
that the best is yet to come
It came to you
It came from you
Let it make you a prisoner of hope
let it grow you
and show you
the next step
when one foot in front of the other
is all you can take
Let it make you
by breaking you
into teeny tiny little puzzle pieces
that you have to put back together again
let it find you
let it lose you
let it yearn for you
Let it miss you
and choose you
let it thrill you
and kill you
let it skin you alive
and eat you
let it feed you
plant seeds in you
create needs in you
let it see through you
and be free through you
let it fill your insides
like the sound of a choir
and distill you
like moonshine in a mason jar
let it walk with you
and talk with you
let it laugh with you
and die with you
let it live in you
and cry with you
let it listen to you
and
you
should
listen
to it
Let it find you
in your hiding places
and unwind you
from your twisted spaces
let it unfold you
like the endless petals of a ranunculus
year after year
time after time after time
as many times as it takes
and if it leaves
let it
Let it mourn you
and you it
Let it transform you
and know that you have transformed it
and if it stays
LET IT
Let it adorn you
and you it
Let it transform you
and know that you have transformed it
It comes and goes
ebbs and flows
hides and seeks
It sings and speaks
It's all that we have
and all that we are
When you find it
it can enfold you
with gentle ecstasy
lift you with electricity
it holds the power
to cocoon you
and it holds the power
to butterfly you
But
you
have
to
let it.