when a poet falls in love with you
you can never die
they will notice the way
you rub your palms and look down
when someone is angry at you
and the way you smirk
as you pull away from a kiss

they will notice how you can't sleep
without your body touching someone else's
how you never crease any pages of books
and how you close your eyes when you dance in your kitchen
with your record player on

they will find all of the words
that they see you as
and turn them into something beautiful

people say you die twice
once when you stop breathing
and when someone says your name
for the last time

if you fall in love with a poet
they will never stop
mentioning your name
you will be alive
for eternity

Be gentle with us.
please.
or not
it's your call
but keep in mind that we as poets
we feel too strong
which is not to say that that is wrong
we don't ease into love, we quickly fall
we love like we're dying
we live like we're small
but in our minds.
in our minds we are flying

we feel everything at once
you wouldn't think it by looking
looking at our normal fronts
a disguise, a charade
but prey don't believe a masquerade
a poet can be but anyone
existing silently
a poet can be but everyone
existing violently
we all make up stories
we're all acting to a degree
so things aren't so different
no not so different you and me

we notice the quirks
we notice the nothings
if you meet a poet then you should believe
you should know that we
we love what we see
and appreciate all forms of beauty
for to us imperfect is lovely
perfect doesn't exist
we have those markings on our wrist
of all the awful places we've been to we kissed
we've kissed the devil when we went
to hell and back again

so now that you have been informed
that a poets heart is easily scorned
knowing we feel deeply
knowing we feel more
more than we really should I've warned
we don't just love a person when we fall
we love their whole world
we love it all
and when we're hurt it is hard to trust
and thus
please.
Be gentle with us.

We are the ones no one understands
we'll stay in the cinema even when everyone's gone
Because we need time to compose our emotions
we'll be lost in a field of flowers,
overwhelmed by the beauty and the desire to smell each of them
We'll take time to listen
to what happened in your nightmares
we are the ones who will dream
of a better world with the ones we love.

We are the ones who will give all our love to others
the ones who will love you more than ourselves sometimes
we are the ons who will bring you cupcakes
when we feel sad with you.
We are the ones who will forgive you
even when we don't forgive ourselves
We are easy to take advantage of
Because sometimes
the pieces of ourselves we give to others
Will never be given back to us

We are the ones who will trust you too easily
we are fragile and our hearts break like glass
When you play with them.
We are the ones who want affection
the ones you will see listening to sad songs in the corner
We are the ones who feel too much, too often
But we don't push down our feelings
because someday
We will teach the world how to love.