1:1 I don't want your mouth on mine
Until I see you speak in tongues
Perhaps to simply cut yours out
Would make you rue what you've become
(Until your tongue is in my mouth
And all my words freeze in my lungs)

1:2 I don't want to fall in love
Until I give my life to Christ
So you, on top of me that night,
Would find in me the Holy Light
(But serpentine in throes of sin
I was as blind man given sight.)

1:3 I don't want to lose my mind
Although my body has its needs
I satiate my skin with sex
But let nobody crawl beneath
(I realized as you moaned inside
That night I wouldn't fall asleep)

1:4 I don't want your fallen God
Misogynistic, impotent
So full of rage and of itself
This ignorance that's heaven-sent
(The cross around your neck you bear
Is cold and pure against my clit)

1:5 "I thought I hated you," you spoke,
with voice like shaken faith in tone
(the hair you brushed out of your eyes)
"Tonight I meant to be alone."
Ten fights, one night I shook in awe
As party razed our classmate's home

1:6 "This secret lust so quickly born -
Perhaps of grass-is-greener thoughts -
Does nothing to assuage my scorn
But that could never make me stop."
"Next week, same time, Evangeline."
"Again, again, until I drop!"

1:7 "But church tomor-" She cut me off
with writhing dreams, sink into me
I want to own you, want your soul
-less body isn't much to be
Until you're doing what you feel
Your body is your enemy.