MICHAELANGELO

I held you in my heart like a coin too precious too spend

Unable to forget it was your smile 

That lit his face like sunlight in the western sky.

I lusted after you, yearned for you, bargained with false gods for a word

I knew would never come.

And sometimes for days I did not think of you

Then one night I would dream of your body 

Lying on the unmade bed

Me resting naked in the crook of your arm

My hair flowing as a cloak of silk over your arms and chest

Your fingers tangled in my pain,

 Moving the sorrow another man put there to a safe place

 For those brief moments we shared.

Would this longing exist if he did not?

The answer is unimaginable

Because he is my heart, my soul,

And the kisses from your mouth made into flesh.