Shifting Skin

Pink Sheets

Flesh and naked skin

Embracing under pink sheets covering our world

I stare into your imperfections

And believe in love

Kisses and hands caressing

Moments and thoughts while undressing

This is what I call life

What it means to be alive

I don’t understand the word love

But I understand what it means

To be in your arms, in your eyes

This fear that circles the room

These dreams that circle you and I

I can taste a future

I can taste broken hearts

I walk through this the same

Believing in God’s game

I don’t know what love is

But I feel God when I touch you

These hopes and fears

Burn beyond the years

I will never forget one of these moments

At least this, I know, is meant to be

ⓒ 2001 Shawn Michael Quinn