poetry – that gray area

Magic

There’s a certain spark of magic that comes from kissing,

The fervent pull of two bodies together that flushes the imagination.

The world as it would seem falls off its orbit,

And the torrent of the waves stop their mindless crashing to listen for the whispered graze.

The uniqueness of every individual touch is indescribable when love is given the hands to feel,

And it stops time and drops stars until every piece of the universe is shared in one single moment-

One single kiss between two lovers-

And then life moves on again.

-Natalie Cait

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It killed me when the magic of the world proved to be fake,

And it was nothing short of exhaustion I felt in its wake.

A time of being deceived by men,

Years of being hurt time and again.

But it did not happen in some grandiose way,

Where the sirens rang loud and I knew on a certain day.

No, it happened over millennias of other lifetimes before I even came to be,

That when it was finally my turn, it was no stranger to me.

It only was in the way that I hoped it wasn’t true.

That I hoped the disappearing cards and the magical growing scarves were all from you,

And that you caused the magic of everyday

Much like a rabbit popping from a hat on its way.

But you didn’t give me anymore magic than I had already had before,

For no one needed eyes to see the things you were capable of in your core.

And I couldn’t go through life with a person like that,

And so, unlike the rabbit, I escaped the hat.

-Natalie Cait

His was the heart that I bled from,

And of his lungs I took breathe.

His were the words that I lived for,

And in his arms I found warmth.

He was laughter and joy,

Triumph and toil.

He made me proclaim happiness and sadness at once

Turmoil and exultation.

His were the bones that formed me,

And from his side we became one.

His were the veins that flooded passion,

And from his touch I found peace.

He was and he is,

Has been and always will,

The love that I have come to cherish

And the heart that I find life in.

– Natalie Cait