goosebumps, lip biting, shaking:
all of the signs that you're a bad idea,
but i've never been the one to make good decisions

you say you'll protect me from anything that hurts me
and every time I look at you I think of the tears a shed every night
alone in my bed

you say you love me
and I know you do
so what do all those other girls mean to you?

you say you will protect me from anything that harms me
but how can you protect me from you?

your freckles form constellations all over your body
and i'm the astronomer
connecting each dot with my lips

you draw a straight line down my spine
barely touching
but i can feel
your soul spilling out of your fingertips.
the taste of your salty sweat on my tongue as I leave my purple print in a place only for you to see.

I want us to get lost in forests together.
to make sweet love under the dew soaked leaves of the trees.
for our bodies to be steaming in the cold unknown.
to create a rhythm with our bodies to the melody of our moans.

insecurity killed the cat.

sometimes I wonder how I look through your eyes,
if I look like this breathtakingly beautiful human that makes your heart pound,
not only from the love making,
but from my presence.

and

sometimes I don't even want to know how I look to you,
too scared that you see me
how I do.