my lips have been so dry they hurt
when I lie down for sleep
and when I wake at 3am for no reason
my body knows the balm
which heals the pain, if not the skin
my lips forget, time and again
that they are dry, cracked
my lips forget their discomfort
when, reaching out in the night, they find you
my heart tells me that my lips
ache for want of yours
and my heart is not wrong