Whole - Eliza Carthy

I could climb all the way inside you and be you for a day

Sliding around inside you, you are so big

So beautiful and so mine

If only I could be you all the time

I could be all the way around you and swallow you in myself

Wrap my body around you, you are so small

So delicate and so mine

If only I could warm you all the time

Do you smell my breathing around you, my body breathing you in

My self and my soul and grace, you are so still

So transient and so mine

If only I could breathe you all the time

And it’s ten o’clock in the morning

And you show no sign of waking

My love has worn you down but I

Know no way of stopping

This swallowing you whole

Body and soul