i have been dragging along
through these months
but your lips taste like
everything i have been missing out on

you feel like
relief

we both found each other
without really looking
but the tragedy of it is
we were both the right people
at the wrong time
if only
we had stumbled across each other
a little bit sooner

sometimes we will drown
forgetting that our feet can touch.
remember there is always support
holding you above the water
no matter how far out into the ocean
you may feel.

i would forever hold
your broken pieces together
no matter how tired my arms got
if it meant i could see
the light shine through your eyes
and the crooked tilt of your smile
just one more time

i need to be alone, i tell you
and you say that i dont mean that
because you are scared to let me breathe
and realize that it is oxygen i need to survive
and not you, the poison filling my lungs

I want you to know.
That even in this challenging time,
I still love you.
With all my broken, shattered and torn apart heart.