For Skye

the thought of your voice
keeps me up
late nights full of
my desperate cries for you
are muffled
by my desperate fear of us
hold you close so you will love me
and closer yet so you won't hurt me
each night
drunk on a roller coaster
of emotion
you have never been good
at concealing from me
any emotion that you feel, don't feel
you seem to think
you can hide the obvious.
every turn of eye betrays you
but i can't strangle
my instinct to be afraid
and i tremble when you hold me close