brandy vogeding - The Little Prince

You have tamed me and I am unlike
a thousand other girls you have known.
I come at you with claws out,
my gentleness, my purring sheathed like a weapon
I come at you with fangs out
lips and tongue and words hidden.
You are all lips. You are all tongue. You are all words.
All gentle. 'Close your eyes, ' you say
and I am blind and I am vulnerable
flinching and thorny, waiting for an attack
that never comes, for a betrayal
you aren't planning, demands you don't have.
You asked, 'Why would you listen to those people
who don't know the right way to love a thing.
All those adults.'
And you are unlike a thousand,
a million other boys I have known
and the color of forests
will always remind me of your eyes, and brass
will always remind me of the color of your hair,
and places will all be touched with the sight of you,
and the smell of you, the feel, and the whole world
it will be made up of you,
because one day, a long time ago,
I asked if you wanted to tame me, and you said,
'yes, ' and you
meant it.

brandy vogeding

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