Love is a
Medicine,
A drug,
An addiction,
That doesn't require
Drinking,
Or inhaling,
Or injecting
But
Touching
Another's skin
And absorbing
It's warmth

Belt snaps
Run laps
No naps
Collapse
Arm wraps
Back chaps
Mishaps
Relapse

I want to cry
And fall apart
But I must be a brave soldier
And silence my heart

We would rather sing songs to wake the birds
And rise to the promising light
Counting the posies beneath our feet

My tears
Spell your name
On the pale canvas
Of my wrist
Artwork
That technically
Is yours
Too

The skies
do not cry
for me or
for you
they only
return
the aching souls
home
gently,
softly,
falling,
then seeping
into the earth

Stuck
between
having you
here
and being
there
'cause we can
neither
be near
or disappear
without miracles
and selfishness
and a trigger
pulling
on my heart
strings

It's sad to know
That a stranger
Still cares about me
More than you do

If only you were here
Oh
The pictures we would take
The beauty
Of moments
Barely captured
For a split second
Because life
Seems better
Than the actuality of it
Through a lens
Doesn't it?

Love is a slap in the face
And a pierce through the heart
You hate it yet you crave it
And it tears you apart

Love is
deadly,
wonderful,
addicting,
holding you
with it's every will
like a pin
balancing on the edge
of a hurricane

Break my heart
Smash it to pieces
But I know
I have loved
Deeper
Than all the earth's oceans
All the way down to the last grains of washed sand
And I've loved
Higher
Than every mountain top
All the way up to kiss the bright rays of the sun
And I've loved
Greater
Than the vast landscapes
That spread far and wide between us two
And I've loved
More
Than anything you could have offered
I've loved
Fully
Beautifully
Passionately
So break my heart
You stole it long ago
And I've been learning to survive
On my own