It’s summer, we swim in the river.
Your smile gives me shivers.
There’s so much I should filter,
all the words that I should hide.
I feel your hands get hotter.
Your hair twisted in knots or
your tattoos underwater
are tying up my eyes.

Don’t fight, the tide will take us slowly.
The dance we do is holy and my heart is still swollen so
I will be here floating
‘cause my heart is still swelling so
when the sun has set if you 
would like to keep on swimming I’ll
be here a little while

touch me, let me know you want me.
stay with me, I’m glowing in the dark tonight.

hold me, let me know you love me.
stay with me, we’re glowing in the dark tonight.

(If you want me, I will be here tonight.
I’ll be floating, I’ll be floating all night in the river. 
In the river tonight, if you want me, say you love me tonight.)


Glowing

"Layer up, lead her down with the water running.
Chase her round, set the sails on your little lungs.
Reel or rile at the sound – at the dirty sound – of  
“What are you thinking now?” 

(There are nights when I dream about your symmetry,
decomposing a scene of what it means to me.
Talk a mile, shoulder out, you are the walking tide
and I am the rhythm that pulls through your summer sea.)

Wait for time, wait for clothes that’ll never dry and
sing along to the call of your mother’s cry.
Sit a while, bleach your bones, drown the habits having
something or nothing to do with love.

(There are nights when I dream about your symmetry,
decomposing a scene of what it means to me.
Talk a mile, shoulder out, you are the walking tide
and I am the rhythm that pulls through your summer sea.)

Turn away – separate from your safer harbors.
Hold your breath, keep it in just to know you can.
Pick a route, pick a home, shed a shell of silence:
say “this is it - this is all I am.”   

Turn away – separate from your safer harbors.
Hold your breath, keep it in just to know you can.
Pick a route, pick a home, shed a shell of silence:
say “this is it - this is all I am.”  

aerica lauren

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