If you must fight for me
Don’t fight in times of fear
Don’t lower yourself or
bend in places not meant to bend
Don't fight for me groveling from your knees
Spilling sorrow and idealisms
of what could be
but never was
Spare me the reminders of happy happenings
Don’t attempt to tease up a
loving happier version of me that
you’ve chased off long ago
Those surface trappings now fail
The weapons of adolescent wars have
rusted and been knocked dull and
now thud against calloused skin
If you must fight for me
fight for me in times of peace
and silence
and stillness
and comfort
Fight for me while my heart happily
purrs in the warmth and safety of your lap
If you must fight for me
Be savage with kisses that
snatch away my low moments
Pierce my flesh with stares of admiration
Scrape me down with a flirty compliment
Claw a path through the guts of space to
draw yourself into me as if it's
the only place you ever belonged
Inhale my exhales
Exhale for my inhales
Hang on
Allow a lingering embrace its time to
entangle and constrict
any divisive concern that
roams our connection's corridors
If you must fight for me
be ruthless and ugly to commit to our beauty
Hunt with a jagged loving disposition that is
blood thirsty
for a conversation
on some park bench
of a perfect early evening
where the sun begins
her
rest
Be here with me
On your feet
With a straight proud spine
Hold my hands
Lock into my eyes
Fall passionately in sync with me
Be an oasis of joy
The inspiration to smile
The reason to rush home
My twin spirit
If you must fight for me
Fight for me
But
Fight then
Not now
Fight then
For now
Fight