Let’s be ourselves if not
only for a night. Let’s just forget
the world around us. Hug me &
kiss me under that one tree. 
The gates outside light aflame.
We join them.

So then let me be free for a night.
Share with me this interlude.
Cover my bruises with collars along 
my neck and your sweat, our blood
call it liberty call it a solution call it
An Addiction
whisper the punchline to me on the grass.
It works until it doesn’t.

Let’s be ourselves if not
only for a night. Let’s just forget
Life. Hug me & let me go bloodstained
on a hill sell my clothes once I’m gone
and
do not mourn.