Yes.

My sentiments on this word haven't changed in the last two years.

The first yes is easy, a single concession to a simple request.

The next comes with some hesitancy, for you begin to understand just how far I plan to take you, and now there is an edge of fear to your acquiescence. But it's too late, the yes is already poised, trembling on your lips, and it slips out with a soft gasp. The next yes follows swiftly after, chasing the second, and the next, and the next, until they become a litany, a cry for more, until the very sound of the word is etched in the devotion of your body.

Why do I coax you to speak when I have you in my hands? I want to hear it in your voice.

“Why are you bent over my desk?”

You look back at me, eyes half-closed, “For you.”

“Louder.”

A gasp as my hands tighten on your hips, dragging your naked ass back against me, “For YOU.”

“Yes. For me. For me, you are wet. For me, you are ready to beg. Now say it like you mean it.”

Shivering, a low moan, “FOR YOU!”

“Are you sure?”

“YES, YES, YES.”

Just say yes.

Yes, you want to be alive, to remind yourself what it is to experience life by defying it, by stepping over the line and forgetting everything but how it feels to exist between one kiss and the next.

Yes, you want to be owned by a moment.

Yes, you want to be pulled in, to drown yourself in whispers and promises. You want hands that will hold you still, that will coax you to life, that will drive you near the edge and hold you there until it is almost unbearable.

Yes, you want someone who isn’t afraid to take what he wants while giving you what you need.

Yes, you want to sin until you are made into a prayer on his lips.

Yes, you want your wrists held, your breath stolen, your body laid out for a thirst that will drink you in and taste the sweetest parts of you.

Abandoned Angel

The funny bit about this poem is that I actually knew exactly what I wanted to say with it. A lot of times I just start writing and sort myself out as I go along. Here…it was different. I wrote it while driving one night and managed to hold it in my head long enough to get home and write it out.

A couple years ago, a friend of mine put it to music and recorded it for me. I can’t do justice to describing how it sounds; if you are curious, there is a link at the bottom of this entry.

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Some abandoned angel
laying in your bed
will weep within your arms tonight
and wake the voices in your head.

Offer up your promises
Offer up your soul
Offer up salvation
But don’t offer up control.

Offer up your angel’s wings
That she might stay with you tonight
And wrap you safe within her arms
Where her kisses curse and her whispers bite.

Offer up your songs
Sung by the voices that she has stirred
And watch the tears fade away

Some pay in deeds like desperate heroes sent
To save a girl from a devilish bent,
Some pay in fear of another lash,
and some just pay in cold hard cash.

Pay in sin
Suffer again,
All those sad young lives,
Won’t quite fit,
on the head of a pin.

Regret, regret
in words past made
But it won’t get you much
For the silver paid.

For some abandoned angel
Lays weeping in your bed.
For you offer up your angel’s dreams
And gave her yours instead.

You can listen to it here:

[audio:BenScarborough_AngelsWings.mp3]