awake,
a half-shadow has found itself on your face
yet you do not scare me
you are indeed beautiful
still
I search for the parts of you
our world instructed us to hide
with time, the earth inside your body becomes
brave, brave enough
to bare itself, and then of course yes!
I find you, here and unhidden and
close the light now
full and holy
like a little church, bowing
on your face
—Loré Yessuff