New poem

Still needs a lot of work but let me know what you think please.

REPTILE

You told me

I had amphibian eyes—

something yellow,

inhuman,

striking in their clarity

And what I hadn't realized

then

was that I had been

growing scales for years,

the complexity of the pattern

too small for the human eye

I had to teach myself, again,

how to see

Your eyes looked cool—

calm and intense

like the ocean;

the salt in them

washed over us

in rhythmic, shrugging waves

It was then that I smelled

the erosion of skin

and realized

it was my own

So much of it

was lifted away

I thought the water

would reach its

malleable fingers

into the muscle

then the bone

and soon,

there would be

nothing left of me

The structure of you

stayed the same

(how could it have changed

when you've lived in water

your whole life?)

I told you

your shoulders felt like pearls

even though I've never felt

a pearl before

You said,

that's alright, honey,

I've never been so close

to something with

so much cold

in their blood