All Woman Next to You

by K. Kylyra Ameringer

I watched you as you lay

Sleeping in the early eastern light

The urge was so strong

This time I had to fight it down

Beat it back

To hold you, for just one night

How can you keep

Sleeping like a child

When I'm all woman next to you?

I drown

In your energies

As the music pounds my mind

In a room full of people,

You are all I find

When I look up

And the morning after

You lay sleeping

Like a boy-king

Sprawled across your throne

You won't even meet my eyes

To offer me a bone to chew on

I could scream till my face is blue

How can you

Keep sleeping like a child

When I'm all woman next to you?

We won't speak

Of this; we never do

One more twisted cigarette butt

And oh, there's quite a few

Under the carpet this morning

How can you

Keep sleeping like a child

When I'm all woman next to you?