in flickering candlelight
i unbutton more than your dress
kissing the crimson valley your lips create
along that river of ink running down your

spine, finding truth between salted skin
and silk sheets i find the silver thread in your chest
tugging pulling               prying until
you are undone within my arms
lying bare in your entirety

                              layers aside, thorns exposed
                              skin searing, eyes rolling

until our dance is over and we lie
underneath a sky so dark we sew
our threads into silver stars for light