His name is a hymn and his kiss is an answered prayer
His skin the pale marble altar where you sacrifice yourself to him

You make confession in breathed secrets along his neck
The scripture you memorize is his pounding heart against yours.

Heaven was never real to you
Until the moment you saw his body bathed in kaleidoscope color from stained glass windows.

The first man to rise from dust and be tempted by a snake was Adam.
The second was Adam Parrish.