i.
i think i loved you before i actually knew it. it was so easy. loving you was so quiet and gentle i didn’t know what was happening until it snuck down my throat and nested in my lungs. when i think about losing you i can’t breathe. i never want to be without you now. i can’t fathom it.
ii.
what kills me is that they don’t understand. whispers are daggers through my chest. they don’t want this. for them or for us. they see what we could be and they want to burn it to the ground.
iii.
you are tender and let the words make a home in your brain. they consume every thought and pull you away from me. you don’t even realize what is happening. you are next to me on the couch but there is a mountain between us.
iv.
i love you still. even when we are drifting apart. i am the planet that orbits your sun, being pulled away from each other by the galaxy. when will we learn to listen to ourselves and not what made us? you cannot keep me and the peace. oh, how i wish you could.
v.
when you want to wage a war i will be there. when you want to expel the thoughts from your head and break the chains they have on you i will be there. you do not have to look very far. the key to my heart is in the shape of your hand.























