09.

Touch my skin like I was

Air flowing through your bones

Grab hold of me and refuse to let go

Refuse to let go

Breathe me in like I was

Water running down your throat

Drown yourself in me and refuse to let go

Refuse to let go

Drink everything about me like I was

Your last meal, your final super

Satisfy your hunger and refuse to let go

refuse to let go

Swallow me whole like I was

The butterflies in your stomach and allow yourself the chance to

Touch me, breathe me, drink it all in and refuse to let go

Refuse to let go.

----

I miss you.

08.

speak to me in a language

that only flowers can understand.

preach to me in whispers about

how beautiful everything is, from

the heat of our tongues to the 

weight of our bones to the roar 

of the life that awaits us. let me

explore you like some kind of

map laid out before my adventurer

fingers and i'll let you taste the

sweetest love your mind has ever

known. speak to me in whispers 

and say the words that truly 

leave me 

silent.

07.

Another hit has been made
Breaking through the cage of my heart
Cupid take your arrow, spare me your song
Don't you see I've something better to wait on?
Everything is going perfectly, everything is just right
Falling into place like some kind of fairy tale story
Going according to some grand plan
Hummingbird heart, can you feel it too?
I think maybe, possibly, you've found something true
Just take a moment, my tiny bird, and listen to the sound
Kisses in the dark upon my skin of light
Love is the combination of the two; it is twilight.
Move now, my little bird, and be fast and true
Nothing lasts forever and this was made for you
Owl heart beating in your cage, can't you hear my heart knocking?
Please let me in so that I may say ---
Quiet my hummingbird heart, you don't want to scare his bird away
Rest easy knowing that his heart is calling you
Stay fluttering by his side until the morning light
Tomorrow is another day, another chance to do things right
Until we hear his heart say those three words, we will wait
Violently falling over every word he speaks as his heart gently asks
Who, who, who? Who and how could this be? So I
X-ray his chest with the weight of my ear and then I hear
You are the one I want, you are the one I love.
Zero seconds past before I realize what I knew all along ; 

-----

I love you too.

06.

1.

Desperate bubbles escaping a cave mouth. 

oh lord, help me get out. Sharp teeth tearing

into the skin of a scream. oh lord, help me

get out. Sacks of air shrinking in a chest.

oh lord, help me get out.

2.

Angry crows sitting in my tree

Pecking at my window

Why'd you leave? Why'd you leave?

Claws digging in the dirt

Chirps becoming screams

Why'd you hurt me? Why'd you hurt me?

Angry crows sitting in my tree

Whispering in my sleep

He will leave. He will leave.

Claws digging in the dirt

Screams becoming laughter

You will hurt. You will hurt.

Then I see.

Those angry crows

Clinging to my tree

They want me. They want me.

 

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I'm being swallowed up by these shadows and they won't let me go. No matter how hard I fight, kick, and pull they just cling tighter and tighter to me. When I think I've broken one's grasp on my mind and heart, another takes hold and clings tighter then ever before. 

Dear God save me.

05.

and you are like

the suitcase sitting in my closet

drowning under the numerous

fingers and arms and feet and limbs

of my heart and soul and love and

i wish i could just

buy a train ticket and just go to

a place where the throat of the

mountains roar and the elephant

grass grows above my head and

when i get there i’ll

throw this old candle to the side

and scream into the wind and

become the rain and the wind and

the air rushing out of my lungs and

you said to me that night

good bye i’m leaving and then there

was nothing but silence and that

silence was noise, the loudest noise

i have ever heard and that’s when i knew


----

you meant it.

04.

come with me to my wonderland,
where grass and love grows like
weeds on your skin and the specks
in the sky aren’t just specks, but

instead your dreams, hanging by
spiders thread. be my mad hatter,
my ace of hearts. follow me through
the rabbit hole and drink the sweet

nectar of the singing flowers so that
your eyes can open wide shut and
you can delight in the colors of this
world, the colors that only honey bees

can see. climb into my makeshift
umbrella boat and together we will sail
pass the singing whales and the dancing
clams until we run ashore and our

bare feet can burrow themselves in
the sand, each grain a dream waiting
to be hung by our shaking fingers in the
sky. take my hand and whisper into my

ear all the things that we like to hear.
promise me protection and good will.
promise me love with no ropes. promise
me that you will keep my wonderland safe.

promise me.

---

how delightful indeed.

03.

You know you got it bad when

the world starts to turn slowly 

and everything is perfectly okay,

not because they say it's okay but

because he says it's okay. then the

A.) world stops.

B.) world doesn't matter

3.) world is him.

You know you got it bad when

the electricity starts to jump from

his skin and dance on yours and as

they tango back and forth you realize

that this is the feeling you've been 

1.) looking for.

B.) longing for.

C.) waiting for.

You know you got it bad when

your whole brain is screaming L O G I C

and the neurons are leaping from synapse

to synapse, like paper boys wired up on

some kind of crack, and your humming bird

heart is beating faster and harder and

louder and stronger than ever before and

is drowning you in ecstasy. you don't 

know why but you know you're going to die

A.) from drowning.

C.) from a heart attack.

B.) from love.

You know you got it bad when

when--?

0.) now.

0.) then.

7.) forever.

-----

Some say love is a game

I say it's like a test

there is no right or wrong

there's just