kissing statues

i’ve been sat here

grasping and gripping and ,looking for the words

and they’ve been caught in the wedding veil i wear

to marry the setting sun

my lord

i’ve been kissing statues.

no matter how perfectly my necklace rests on my collarbones

i’ve been kissing statues.

spinning planets around

my fingers

and pouring stardust

into the gaps where my skin doesn’t fit over my bones

i’ve been

kissing. statues.