1.It lights matches to illuminate your darkness, but leaves them by the trees--you mistake the danger of this flaming forest fire for passion
2. It grips your wrist tightly, pulling you into a beautiful world amongst the stars--it's not long before you begin to find comfort in the shadow
3. It paints poppies in your garden and sunsets in your skies, but passing time only lets the light disappear and the flowers die
4. It's the soft patter of raindrops as you're falling asleep, a lullaby, sweet and calming.. until the day that gentle drizzle becomes a tsunam
5. Love is the most beautiful form of self reduction, disguised as magic and ending in destruction

lover, your lips taste
like broken glass--
your fingertips feel
of a thousand splendid suns
exploding all at once
and your eyes,
oh god,
your eyes look
like starting over
like a new day
they look like letting go
like moving past every missed chance
and broken promise
they are the sunset
they are the sunrise
they are everything in between...
but none of that compares
to the depth of your mind,
because while theirs is a puddle
yours is an ocean
and i have been striving
for years
to teach myself how to swim
so that maybe
i could catch a glimpse
of all that is beneath
the surface
without losing myself
to the current