Oh, love
I know it's been forever
(Please don't look at me that way)
But I really need you now.
I mean
You and I both know
It's only a matter of time before I come crawling back to you
Every time
Right?
(I can just barely remember a time when that wasn't so.)
For now
I think it's best
We just forgive and forget --
You know, be virtuous and all that --
Because I love you --
I really do --
And I truly haven't needed something in a long while
As much as I need you
Right this very second.
In fact, my dear
You're making me hurt just by standing there --
Oh, and what a sweet agony --
Just staring at me
Waiting on me.
You have me so entranced
So transfixed
That just seeing you, so close to me
So accessible
Just about kills me.
I swear
As soon as our eyes met
From across this crowded room
My stomach tied itself into a captain's knot
My heart bared down on the gas pedal
My bones caved in on one another
Leaving me a horrifically contorted abstract figure
A caricature of humanity.
(Look at me -- I'm ruined.)
I could barely even walk to meet you
For the pain ripping through me.
I figure you should know. that
Despite the nauseating feeling of anguish overtaking me
You still looked so marvelously enticing
Inviting enough to have me salivating
Like one of Pavlov's dogs.
(You ruined me.)
So now
I'm standing in front of you
Practically begging on my knees --
Oh, how humiliating --
Pleading for you to
Please, please, please
Take me back
Help me out
Put me out of my misery.
Of course, my love
Being who you are
All it takes is those few words
For you to take me in your arms
And hold me tight enough
To ensure that I won't be going anywhere
For a very long while.
I close my eyes
Feeling every wound heal by your touch alone
And feel truly human
Truly awake
Truly alive
For the first time
Since I last left.
Oh, love
How did I ever live without you?
(I ruined me.)