will you marry me quickly
whisk me away to a secret room
where all my secrets undress
stare at one another
and gently, will you hold me
will you wrap confidence and strength
around a trembling waist
and let the paper thin masquerade burn into
something i can give to you
into something i can
cover you with
myself

one moment your heels exposed from their fashioned leather home
passed my frantic hands in
worn carpet hallways
i lost my breath
thought of nothing but
how could i find every hallway you will walk in
for the rest of my life

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