Your voice, so smooth it tickled my ears
Come into me like you once did, and I would swallow you whole.
Come into myself like I never did and I could stay afloat.
My heart endured just to be sure
That I made the right choice, the wrong one, or no one
No one compares to your charms
You who let me lose myself in your arms
You who took me away from my day to day but distrust still creeped.
No one compares to the havoc you wreaked.

One year I chased you. The next, you chased me.
The last, we ran in circles until I was alone, lamenting your company.
Then you reappeared, different as I was, I wanted you all the same.
Then I left but we stayed enmeshed, sharing love between the pain.
Things began to turn when you grew tired of the distance,
Maybe, just maybe, maybe there’s more we insisted
Until you said you don’t love me like before,
nothing left but memories so sore.

What feels strong and voiceful flows out like garbled whispers,
Like when I asked you to choke me, and I faded with radio static tongue twisters.
Then awoke to your warm hand tapping my face,
eyes staring into me, mouth agape.
If we could meander so many years through storms and drought,
then I can swim through my own stream of doubt
that I will ever find another.

From a ******* where the ocean splashes the land,
To the filth along train tracks,
Sealed in boxes until a different time,
Adorning the tender sternum or soft ears of a lover,
Even in the hands that look like mine.

Luster, depth, and complexity, draped in an iridescent rainbow.
Is it truly rare?

Aloof you pass by many,
Hopeful searches turn hopeless,
Until the one that finds you.
Will it break?
Will there be another?
Will you know its value and will it be true?

What is coveted will always be ravished.
What is ravished may be lost,
Too soon before you learn to live with what you have.