I came in laughing
With salt on my teeth
Half holy, half starving
With my heart under me
The room was all red light
The night was all bone
I have always mistaken
Being wanted for home
But you
You moved through me
Like water finds a wire
Like something in the dark
Still reaching higher
And i opened
Like low tide
Like a mouth
Like a wire
Like a city
When the lights go
All at once
All on fire
I opened
I opened
I know the taste of leaving
I know the weight of want
I know how a body trembles
When it gives up being strong
I've worn my fear like silk
I've worn my grief like gold
I have let my best intentions
Turn feral in the cold
But you
You held me
Like earth holds heat at night
Like air after thunder
Clear and bright
And i opened
Like low tide
Like a cut
Like a choir
Like a city
When the lights go
All at once
All on fire
I opened
I opened
There is a version of me
Still barefoot in the doorway
Still asking the dark
To choose her gently
There is a version of me
All teeth, all prayer, all hunger
And she is not wrong
She is just younger
So if i come to you shaking
If i come half undone
Know i was never afraid of love
Only what it makes of someone
And i opened
Like low tide
Like a lung
Like a fever
Like the sky
Right before it
Gives the whole night
To the river
I opened
I opened
And the world came in