My Love

Am I asleep or awake? Now naked in your arms, am I asleep or awake? Now set free in your beautiful, loving gaze upon the bruises of my face and the bruises of my breast. Am I asleep or awake? Now like a newborn in the cradle of your arms with the kind caresses of your fingertips over the bloody trace of time on my back. Am I asleep or awake? Beneath this downpour of lashes and stones, in this meeting, so light-winged and glad, my love...