Love, stay with me.
If you are lost,
Let my tongue and teeth
Make a way for you.
If are godless,
Build your temple in my ear.
Let my soft body be your home.
Forget your hot sand and
Hollow-points and helicopters.
What you seek is nothing
But sickness and starving dogs.
Love, be not tempted by
The blood-bright fruit of the dead.
I only ask that you
Let me know the simple ecstasy
Of falling asleep with you each night.
Love, stay with me.

Hannah Thomasy is 20 years old and majoring in behavioral neuroscience but have always had a secret love of poetry.