Like autumn leaves in the cold winds of change, I fell for you.
Fell for you without any of the gentle grace of a floating leaf, I cascaded towards the shore of you.
Plummeted into the waves of your seas like a sinking ship, I cast my anchor to help me along the way to your depths.
All of this to say, I love you.
I love you like the stony beach loves the tide, its soft ebb and flow slowly wearing away the rock's sharp edges.
You changed me in ways I never told you.
Your voice wrapped around me like the warm breeze during the summer nights of my youth, set my heart to a gentle thrum like the jostle of pine trees in the wind.
Your voice was the last thing I wanted to hear.
Your hands the last thing I wanted to hold.
You lips the last mine would ever touch asides from my own breath to say.
I love you, be well.

Your hand in mine
head on my shoulder
Endless train tracks
In my dreams
I could stay
Longer than each breath I take
Next to you

A ringing in my ears
Is all I hear
When you say that word
And how easily it seemed
to have fallen from your lips
much like I
think I may have fallen for you

I want to fold into you
and feel the weight lifted from my shoulders with your kiss
Without our lips ever touching

Burning love
Make me numb
I'm sick of the lies
We keep telling ourselves

Waking up
To the smell of sweet coffee
And the taste
Of your bitter love