I want you to know me now
in all of my glittering
uncertainty
in all of my fire
in all of my hunger

my body aches
for the sound of your touch
to break every barrior
before it
to shatter these false
people
and bury their lingering breath

I need you today
not to fix
or mold my delicate heart
but to know me
so that when we are old
we can know
without a breath between us
what today was like