Communion Poem by Amber Toohey

You asked me once
gently, in the dark

why I love you so much.

Your quiet earnestness
and soft pleading broke my heart.

I didn't answer very well.
Unexpected vulnerability stole my breath
and sinuous words slumbered in the void.

I love you
because you've always been with me.

You are the disseminator dancing,
licking and stinging uninitiated ears
with every waltzing breeze past youth.

You're beautiful and wild,
and the roots of your soul
anchor thick in the ore of chaos.

I bury my dead in you,
and watch God take form in your eyes -
as we conquer one another
cracking our communion rib,
and you know the worth of my intimacy.

I love you because in the spiral
our bodies are the place where power combines
and there is ambition in our blood, to mingle

and be set free.