You regard yourself as a free spirit, a fighter, a tough man, until one day she comes up in your path out of nowhere- or straight from hell, for that matter- gracefully carrying a latte-to-go and makes you feel weak in the knees. Giving in had never sounded appealing to a self-called warrior like you until you noticed her and her lioness eyes and her full lips and her whole existence kindly & silently inviting you to hand in your sword.
You begin to ask yourself where the brave man has gone the minute you panic just to think of her deprived of your protection-as if she ever needed it in the first place. You face the fear of losing her long before you undress her and, in that moment, you realize nothing was ever so worthy of a deadly battle wound than that girl lying on your bed on a Sunday morning.
And you like her because she is what everybody warned you stay away from, because she spits bad words like poison into the hearts of the unfaithful with a smile on her face, because she rejoices at the thought of sin, because she doesn’t need your shield yet values the gesture, because she hustles by your side, because she wolfs down pizza the way you would like to devour her thighs.
No fancy feast has ever compared to the delights of breakfast in bed together, making up universes out of breaths, feeding from nothing but each other and, sure as hell, the back of your mind will always keep the chaos of the universe hidden in her hair. “Let it down, my love, let it down”- you know a real man would never ask a beast to tame its mane.
It takes no time for you to get used to the taste of victory that her skin confines and it becomes ridiculous that people call themselves “lucky” when they haven’t been brought back to life by the air she releases as your hands hold her face- sacred millimeter of separation between your mouths, profane yearning so much stronger than a stampede setting your chests on fire.
Sooner rather than later the end will sweep upon you both because there’s only so little flesh and so much hunger to satisfy; the pressure is too strong, the embers are too hot, and you are not a free spirit, you are not a fighter, you are not tough- you are just a man who fell in love with a gracious beast.
When the moment of parting comes, remember she is the kind of wound that’s no use licking. You will be abandoned to the memory of her laughter lighting up your insides, to the image of her head thrown back in a magical curve, to the ghost of her humanity sleeping helplessly upon you. You’d much sooner have died in the battlefield a long time ago than forget her… at least the first option would have been at all possible.