A poem for you today

I have been fortunate enough to receive some interesting work coming in from other authors, so today I'd like to share this poem with you from Leila Fortier. It appeared in my May newsletter. You could have read it three weeks ago if you were subscribed...

~The Gift~

By Leila Fortier 

Confess

To me that you can feel me

As my desire burns through this screen~

 My panic of want that is so rapidly regressing~

That I have made love to you so many times a

Day since my return~

Memorizing

Every

Portion of you

With eyes that have

Dreamt you into my reality~ That my hands

Know what you think I can’t see~ Pulsating

Against and inside of me~ I have wrapped

Myself around the outer shell of you~

 As I have coiled my ring of fire

For you to penetrate

Through

 As I

Worship

Your expressionless

Gaze~ Till invoked is your

Hungered passion played~ Stimulated

Your frozen meditation~ Till you came out

 Of that meditation~ For you have been my meditation~

And now I will be yours~ Damn my selfish starving state

 That willfully sins before you~ Transgressing my morals and

Now the law of you~ Forgive me in advance that I not lose you…

But cleave unto you deeply~ And bury you within this ache of

Me~ Imbedded and pressed into the heat of me~ Inscribing

Your prophecies upon the wet walls and core of me~

 That together we may throb in this need that

 Has been playing out separately~

Refuse me not forever

More~ For I need

You to release

This~ I need

You to

Exorcise

This~ Because I am once more

Burning alive by this…

Where I lap

 Dance

Upon

The icy

Shadows

Of your mind

Just to summon

This…This part of

You that can no longer

Hide~ No longer cold and

Dormant outside~ Graphically

 I have acted out this~ Until I am so

Near that you can feel my supernatural

Presence~ Where I have tasted the salt of

Your sweat and the drink of your creation~

Feeding this life in me now without moments

Hesitation~ Biting down upon my lip to taste

The fruit of your labor~ The reality of my

Existence~ This surreal act savored~ I

Shudder now with you in this ocean

 Of fire~ Where you can no

Longer deny desire~

Tell

Me you

Have been

Insatiably fucking

Me~ That this is not also

 A part of my wild imagination

 Reckless heart speaking~ Or

Tell me that you have NOT done

 This~ That I can finally let go

Of this~ I beg of you to break

This silence~ And let me

Suffer whatever the

Consequence~

When your

Voice

Alone would

Be the

Gift

.

Leila A. Fortier is a writer, artist, poet, and photographer currently residing on the 

remote island of Okinawa, Japan. Her writing is known to be a unique hybrid form in 

which her words are specially crafted into visual form and design, often superimposed 

over her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken accompaniment, for 

a full bodied expression and intensity of each piece.

Her work has most recently been accepted by The Sage of Consciousness Literary 

Review, Damazine, Nefarious Ballerina, and Visions with Voices among others. She has 

appeared in several books, anthologies, and publications including Treasured Poets of 

America, Satiated Sunrise, and A World of Love: Voices for Carmen. She is also the 

author of Metanoia's Revelation through iUniverse.