Tytiana Tobin

 

Honorable Mention in Poetry

Penny For Your Thoughts

 

Can I offer a penny for your thoughts

Matter of fact how bout I offer you three

One penny for you, one penny for me, and one for our minds

Engaging not so sexually, getting intimately closer as we reach the altitude of new sensational conversation

Because I am trying to get to know you,

Everything about you from the neck up,

So these are not your typical poetic pros,

I am trying to close the door on that all to familiar foreplay of which people try to approach you

While they are trying to get deeply imbedded in the fine fibers of your bed sheets,

I am trying to define and fine the fibers of which your mind speaks.

I want to engage you by putting a 2kt diamond on your mind and marrying your every thought.

I want to lick every inch of every crevice so I can get an oral fix of your passionate imagination.

I would rather be naked and exposed and relying on your tears

While you describe the tough times you had in your life

And how you don’t know if you can be in a relationship long enough to be someone’s wife

I want to feel the heartbeat as they are leaping towards your warm feminine thoughts

Swimming from breast strokes to backstrokes.

I am penetrating every entrance to your mind

Taking my time to find out everything about you.

Did I ever tell you about the time you fell asleep in my presence

And gave me an essence as you laid by my side

I pushed the blinds aside and through the moonlight

I counted 72 eye lashes on the upper eyelid of your right eye

Because as you sleep they remain slightly open

While we probably moved to quickly into some sexual stuff

I’ve always cared more about what came between your lips meaning your voice

So now I am standing here naked and exposed ready to trade in all the sexual acts that we’ve performed for the chance to reform the basis of our relationship

And I offer you another penny for your thoughts.

 

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