Pain & Pleasure Poem by Maya Hanson

I can feel every cave in your paradise,
I know every wisp of smoke in your memory
I can catch my breath
on the back of your neck
and I want to keep you
forever warm.

We're not just touching
we're exploring
the colors wrapped in
a wheel of me and you.

You pull me up the slope
all I can see is hands and skin and thundering need

Your torture rises to my peak
Our sounds dip and curve to the beat
Our pleasure, our pain
is the kingdom we've won
sheer desire we both welcome
with open arms.

We are each other's cracks and
bleeding weaknesses,
we lift each other up
on pure sinful wings
And after all we're breathless

We rise as one, crash to earth,
our bodies glittering with the chaos between us

Together we are everything,
we are nothing,
tangled in each other
and breathing for each other
and gasping for everything we could be

we are so much more now.