I Want Your Good, Your Bad, Your Everything

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Lay your parts,
lay all your parts
on me
let it mar my skin
and I’ll let them dance
inside my body
with the gentleness of
lightning caressing
distant clouds,
I’ll let them consume
my entirety the way
the night sky swallows
scintillating constellations.
Lay all of you on me
all the terrible,
all the beautiful
and I will love
you,
all of you, still