and around every corner in the dark
I keep hearing your name
strung together like a haunted voice from my past
again and again

baby i'll say it through poetry,
unpoetic rhyme schemes wrapping around your neck and whispering in your ear, licking the tip of your tongue just enough to make you want more, words holding me down enough to let you pick me back up, push me against the wall of this page and come into me through metaphors and every cliche that there is,
poems so hot you'l burn your finger reading them, bodies so sweaty the pages curl in the moisture of the room where my mind keeps roaming around and around searching for every metaphor i can just to say *take me

i didn't know what it meant to crave somebody until my body began to feel like i'd fallen victim to the nicotine you've smoked every time we were together
suddenly you're gone
and i feel withdrawal effects
from your words
from your kiss
from you

honey, you could tell me a million times you miss me and all I would feel is the pain of the times you forgot to say it when all I needed were those three words

i always say that i'll be strong enough to leave you one day
but tell me
how can a flower
live without rain?