Keep Me

Touch my face with your leathery hands
Take my lips to yours and dream of foreign lands
Soak yourself inside my embrace
Kiss my eyelids and nuzzle my face

I care not what day it is or from whence you came
You are to me, wonderful, just the same
I don't want to know what happened back then
Just hold me close now and let's pretend

Be someone you are not and never will be
I can change smiles and take you with me
I laugh in the sunlight as you hide your eyes
Don't be sullen, sweet love, all we have are lies

Peel back the layers of skin that I shed
Laughter and tears mix in pools of bright red
Rip off the old and replace it with new
Forever and ever I am now part of you.