you found me
hiding out
beneath tissue and layers
of bad gags,
not bagged gifts
frozen
stilled in terror
that life was going
to kick my feet out from under me
and knock the wind from my lungs,
then laugh.
you found me
and I was never the same
as then
when you grappled my demons,
pulled me down
under your covers,
pried out my secrets
made me laugh
like incoherent
and innocent and
alive again,
under your spell-
under you
with the weight of
nothing but love
as a force field
holding me down,
holding me with bliss
and I was never the same.