Poem - Breakwater
In the interest of expanding my active involvement in fandom (assonance woo!) I had a thought as to whether I could write a poem as a fan work and have it not come off totally self indulgently. I'm not sure I succeeded but I'm vague with pronouns and no names are mentioned so if I hate it later I can totally pretend it was never about Steve and Danny;
Breakwater
When he enters a room he seems
to not just suddenly be in the room
there is a bow wave of sound
rippling eddies of words that lap
and receed in volume, filling up
the space before his body ever enters there.
When he has a thought, any quick
decision or opinion, a bloom
opens up across his face, a filling pool
that reflects his words
before they're ever spoken.
When he feels a touch, his body curves,
slops beyond its edges,
a split second splash against the pads of fingers,
the pressing ridge
of shoulder, and it seems
as if his form acts before he consciously decides
to move. He seems surprised by every brush
of tongue against his thighs.
There is no doubt when you are loved
if he loves you; he has no breakwater
no line of stone against the storm
and yet
his whole self becomes a harbor
to enter and rest, a place to shelter
when weariness comes.
Breakwater
When he enters a room he seems
to not just suddenly be in the room
there is a bow wave of sound
rippling eddies of words that lap
and receed in volume, filling up
the space before his body ever enters there.
When he has a thought, any quick
decision or opinion, a bloom
opens up across his face, a filling pool
that reflects his words
before they're ever spoken.
When he feels a touch, his body curves,
slops beyond its edges,
a split second splash against the pads of fingers,
the pressing ridge
of shoulder, and it seems
as if his form acts before he consciously decides
to move. He seems surprised by every brush
of tongue against his thighs.
There is no doubt when you are loved
if he loves you; he has no breakwater
no line of stone against the storm
and yet
his whole self becomes a harbor
to enter and rest, a place to shelter
when weariness comes.