Unwrap me like a present
Like I'm your greatest gift
Rough waters turned to pleasured waves
I'm surely sent adrift

A crescendo fills my lungs
and sings with bitten lips
We dance in sheets til night is done
hands vine with tensioned grips

Eyes flutter shut like angel wings
Love drips like heaven's rain
The kiss of wine turned to poison
Love's passion turned to pain

The feelings meant for movies
Our times of hungered bliss
These times that are only left
for me to reminisce

He said so with a stern look
like he had been lied to for the first time
and I said
The last hug you gave me was
your most genuine out of all
the other ones you gave
if I were to stay

I guess I just wanted to feel
something different
I guess I just wanted to feel
*something

(I) (want) a guy
Who will hug me tight
When I am about (to) (scream)
Who will kiss (every) inch of me
When we settle in bed
Who will bring me coffee
In my (waking)
Who will be with me
In every (moment) of everyday
Who will make me laugh
(When) (I) (am) feeling down
Who will run away with me
(Without) a second thought
Who will say ‘I love (you)’
When I need to hear it the most
I need you
(I need you)
I need you

You know when you're getting old.
When you realize the generations after you are stupid
and the generations before you were right.

It begins. You are born
into an unseen kingdom on earth
with a life as a test

As a child
you seek for dear daddy
but your eyes never meet

You know He sees you
from a palace you await
your whole life to step into

He's here for you they say
He guides you they say
He is your king they say
You believe what they say

You walk as time runs

As you gets older
you begin to wonder
You're impatient to meet him
You hear more and more stories
about a man that plays with fire
How he creeps in the unguarded hearts
of those who should know better

One night you hear his steps
follow you in the dark
with nothing but the burning torch in his hand
Like a moth
you drift closer to his bright hypnosis
dazed by his glowing eyes
He touches your shoulder
in what seemed to be gentle
All you know is that
you don't have to wait for this one

You fall into his arms
expecting a hug.
Have you found your
"Father?"

Suddenly you're paralyzed into his grasp
The eyes of a deceiving madman
stare down as he suffocates your soul
Your heart is drained empty of pure water
to be replaced with his vile poison

You run as time flies

You're caught,
curled up in a lonely alleyway
between two harrowing dead ends

You stare into the wall of fire
at a hand with sharp red talons reaching out
accompanied by a wicked grin
you recall in your nightmare
A familiar acquaintance

You turn to find another hand
that tempts you
softly begging for your trust again
He has watched you like a Shepard
but you don't know his smile
He is a stranger
only vaguely remembered
by the tales you've heard them
speak greatly about

You're overwhelmed
You're distressed
You're impaired
You're weak

Tears make your vision hazy
and with a swift, blind move
you close your eyes and grab a hand

I remember when we first met

Light flickered in your eyes
the way moonlight reflects
through cold crystals

Your voice that made me deaf
to the loudest of angel hymns
surrounding you

Like the sun
I behold you in sight before
withdrawing from a dangerous stare

Being so close
it suffocated me
yet so far to leave me
of beautiful agony for you

A smile that embeds in your
skull for a day you want
to remember it's perfection

And with the torture of goodbye
we croaked out between soft lips
"see you later"
like it was a promise

-*D.P.

Just being with you
leaves me speechless

I just want to be quiet
and listen to you for hours,
cuddling together side by side to
keep ourselves warm with our
heartbeats and slow breaths

I want to just take in our
soft silence, where there is
no questions asked
no words taken so serious
no explanations to reason
our way out of misgiven words

I just want to feel like the two of us
are the only ones in the world
and that would be okay
because all we need at that moment is
each other

- *D.P.