Save for Me Your Darkness
John Tustin

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Save for me your darkness.
Let others share your light.
Give to me your anger,
All balled up in fists of fire:
I’ll take them in mine,
I’ll make them temperate,
I’ll hold them close to my heart
And soothe and end their conflagration.
 
Give to me your jealousy,
Your infidelity,
Your bitter psychological infirmaries.
Put them between your legs,
I’ll pound them out,
Cast like demons.
Put them down your throat,­­
I’ll shove them further down
Until they don’t exist.
I will pulverize them.
Put them on the tip of your clit,
I’ll suck them away.
 
Let your light shine among the rest:
Let them bask, let them warm,
Let them see as you cast it.
Let them wonder why you love me.
Save for me your darkness.
Bite me in the depths of it.
Reach for me in the throes of its despair.
Pull my cock and whisper your desire
In the night as black and thick
And mesmerizing
As your hair.
Put me in you,
I’ll extract your darkness.
I’ll contract and expand your heart.
I’ll heal you.
I’ll force out your secrets
And love you more and more.
 
Let your darkness fill the room.
Let me sap you of it.
Let me replace your madness with faith
As you replace my pity
With perseverance.
We will exchange our darkness
In the night
With fingers and tongues
And later, the caressing whispers
Of the loved and satisfied.
Let us fill our rooms
With light.
Tonight
We set the darkness on fire
And watch it flicker
In the eyes
Of the other.
Tongues and hands
And genitalia joined,
Locked
Together;
Always, always
Together.