Lips

If these lips should
 Cease their tirade
 Draw the poison back
 Moments stung
 Forever swollen
 From the harsh attack
 If these lips would
 Hold their sorrow
 Muted into place
 From the stillness
 Mercy beckons
 Quietly for grace
 Take these lips
 And use my kiss
 Before I harm again
 Take the skin
 I'm offering
 And hold me down
 If these lips
 Should learn to trust in
 Falling back to love
 From the slumber
 Hunger wakens
 To the heart above
 If these lips
 That I surrender
 Whisper of regret
 Melt this frozen
 Mouth I offer
 Risk the consequence
 Take these lips
 And use my kiss
 Before I harm again
 Take the skin
 I'm offering
 And hold me down
 Till I am safe
 Till I am sound
 Tether me
 To where we suspended
 I'm not convinced
 The story has ended
 Of fragile walls
 And shifting ground
 The tapestry
 Has come unwound
 And I can feel
 That this
 Is coming down
 All around me
 Take these lips
 And use my kiss
 Take the skin
 I'm offering