intl.mp3 [spoken word / piano interlude] first draft

i knew you in a past life

yet i don't know if you knew me in yours

our bodies intertwined

but our souls did not

my hands knew the smell of your hair 

my tongue, the soft embrace of your mind

your teeth knew the gentle give of my shoulder

your ribs, the soft ache of mine

the scratch of sheets beneath our fingertips

orange blossom light pulls us from sleep

after you'd whisper your curses into the night

but you didn't know my name

sticky, sticky, wet, hot, heat

cold sweat, damp skin

but you did not know my name

i wonder from a million miles away

if you knew of our lives before today

faces etched into the sun

my name carved into the mood

the stars in your eyes

your fingernails imprinted into my skin

i wonder, with souls intertwined

if our bodies will, too