If you become a part of me Will I hold you tenderly Or lose myself in what I keep Too close to name, too deep to sleep If I become a part of you Will I break or make it through Will I vanish, will I stay Or finally arrive that way Your hands are warm with hesitation Your pulse confesses fascination I want your memories near my heart Not torn away, not kept apart But if my body makes you mine Beyond the kiss, beyond the line Will love preserve the shape it knew Or make one life from two Your breath rests close against my mouth A living question moving south Not crude, not simple, not obscene But something felt and still unseen I want to cross the border there Where bodies answer more than prayer But if I give myself to you What remains of me and you We hover close We never choose Because choosing means someone might lose A part of me A part of you If I receive you What becomes true A part of you A part of me If I surrender What remains free If I consume what I adore Do I protect Or hunger more If I am taken through that door Do I arrive Or end before A part of me A part of you What will remain If we go through I hate the way I want this badly The way it makes restraint look sadly Like cowardice dressed up as care Like wanting you but leaving air I don’t want trophy, proof, or claim I want my pulse to keep its name So if you bite, if you begin Promise I’ll still answer within I fear the mercy of completion The final softness of deletion A love so close it loses speech A shore no hand can ever reach But still I ache to bring you near Past every rule that kept us clear A sacred risk, a tender wound Two bodies singing out of tune What is the soul when carried What is the self when cherished What is the body when shared What if we’re both still there A part of me A part of you A part of me A part of you What will remain If we go through A part of me A part of you If I receive you What becomes true A part of you A part of me If I surrender What remains free If we combine What will we do Will love survive As one made new Live as one pulse Or fade as two A part of me A part of you
