My Every State of Mind

You are My State of Mind

You kiss me
and I am a teenage boy being kissed for the first time

You laugh
and my world becomes a 70s rerun laughing on the carpet

You hug me
and I am an astronaut finding the cure for cancer on top of Everest

You shine desire
and my world becomes a stolen Playboy magazine from my father’s closet

You touch me
and my body is one returned from a day of skiing and sunk into a bubble bath

You breathe on me
and I am in my grandmother’s garden rustling the lavender

You snuggle close
and I am home on a sheepskin rug, with my dog, in front of a fire I built

You whisper I love you
and my world lacks hunger, sleep, and responsibility

I see you through a window
… my every state of mind.

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck

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