If I were to date you...

If I were to date you,

Let us think of it this way
I know that our love is 

More than naked bodies. 


Twas the night we sat on the 

Railroad tracks 
when we both discovered 

Our hearts are the 
color of stoplights, 

But we could never be stilled. 


They were too frantic—

Shaking our chests, like 
a drum, 

Yet it was rhythmic. 

We were in a trance.



You told me that the capillaries in your lungs


Felt like tiny upside down trees. 

I have always 
been connected with 

The veins in my hands. 


They remind me of a river. 

I cannot explain 
why, 

But you were never afraid to tell me

That 
we are intertwined with the veins in my hands. 


Your skin and mine together. 

I imagine the trees
 in its purest form 

And the river is inhaling quietly.
You and I are still at the train tracks. 


Our hearts are still shaking, 

But 
We are naked and pure.