It’s like I’ve been underwater and everything that I’ve touched or saw was altered by the water’s bewitching weightlessness
I only saw the beauty of a long-bodied fish swimming circles around me
I admired its teeth and it’s dark eyes and how it’s dorsal fin cut through the water like a hot knife through butter
It was only when I let it get close enough to bite me that I realized it was a shark

And as my blood floated delicately out of my arm and the salt water poured in and burned my screaming lungs, I was still only entranced by the alluring colors and the significance of the pain

Suddenly I was ripped from the water and the bright sun stunned my eyes
My body weak and pruned from enduring the sea too long
My arm tired and hurt
My lungs barely able to capture air

On a boat, being forcefully taken from the ruby-stained haven I thought I had settled my defenseless revere of a body
The screeches of seagulls pericing my ears

The farther away it took me and the more the dazzling, ruby water in the sunlight faded in the distance, the more afflicted I became

I was hurt that the thing I had admired so deeply would only get close so it could harm me
The aching in my bleeding-out arm warped what was once passion and awe in my mind into an rotten frenzy of rage and disbelief

How could I have stayed down so long and not seen what was coming
Why was I the only one being punished for wanting to see only the beauty in my situation
Why was I alone after staying somewhere I didn’t belong for so long for something else
And why was I the only one that people were angry with

The shark didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to bite me, just like he was never taught that it wasn’t okay to hurt me
I was admiring something because I was told it was supposed to be beautiful and because in nature it was

But when you know somethings nature and what it was influenced by its surrounding to do, the only person you can be mad at is yourself

The first time I saw her, I was just doing my daily routine
Never saw eyes prettier, and she smoked ****
Her smile took my breath away,
Thought another man already had her heart
So I didn't ask for her number then
Two long weeks we were apart

She'd come over from time to time, loved my product then shoot the ****
Almost biffed trying to jump a fence
That's the moment that it hit
She had to be mine, make it legit

Forever n' Always
That's what I'd say
I"d love you more and more each and every day
In this universe with you I'd want to stay
I'd know I could be loved starting today

The moment I saw him, walking with no shirt in the sun
I knew I loved him
His eyes a loaded gun
When mine met his, instant stun

He was everything I craved
Sarcastic and a bad ***
Chivalrous and sweet
Twenty different scar stories, each one unique

He told me I was beautiful and we had our first embrace
I press my chest harder against his
That's when his arms became my new favorite place

Forever n' Always
That's what I say
I want to love you more and more each and everyday
In this universe with you I want to stay
I want to be loved starting today

Our walls broke down for each other
Our heart in their most vulnerable space
So terrified and ready for what's starting to happen
Each basking in how good our love tastes

One year and now we laugh and we play
Both know each others buttons and what not to say
Best friends, every secret we have shared
Loving that we took that leap, loving because we dared

Forever n' Always
That's what we say
Love each other more and more each and every day
And in this universe, our hearts live and stay
Never thinking we could be loved until that fateful day

They call her heartbreaker
Ride you so hard she'll take your soul
Use it to rejuvenate herself
Savior it in sips
Finger licking taste of stealth
She'll call you baby
But it's better for her health when your gone
No more singing the black birds sad song
Trying to be someone she's not
You're so shallow
Heart full of empty gallows
Look at the mess that it's brought
You've got her wrong if you think she'd let you take over
Give up her chains and leather
Not even close, no man can control her

You'll fight in the beginning
She'll get you good and mad
Then when you both know she's winning
That's when the air smells sad
She depleted your emotions
The strength it took mentally the equivalent of swimming oceans

Numb and awe struck
Who knew the dragon within her would swallow you whole
Defend her, pleasing you was always her goal
Now you're always with her
The shard that pings her heart
Tragically romantic
Two puzzle peices put together that were meant to be apart
She's taken the best of you
But you're still the worst thing within
Deep down she hates herself for even letting you in.