Unease

Bare in your sheets 
The power shifts 
Like god and Mary 
Replace your lips 
With cruel fantasies 
I don’t care to admit 
What they mean

This painful unease 
Burns right through the skin 
Of my knees 
When you begin 
To want what you see 
To share your sin 
So proudly with me
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