Welcome Artist

Inside the cage of my ribs
You turn false smiles genuine
Flutter beside my heart
Cure my body of common sin
So carefully I chance to breathe
Lest I scare you from your perch
Root yourself on my pulse
Stay always like some strong birch
I carry myself quietly at night
So as not to wake your sleep
How wondrous you are inside
Enriching the life you could reap
Wielding your hands like a brush
A cruel-kind artist you are
My love-stained ribs do shiver with
Nature's choice to heal or marr
You cling to me so precarious
It makes me gasp in faint
My soul be your palette
My blood, your paint.