Our love started from hatred. Their love started with dreams. My heart was a valley And blindly you crashed down. Though you could not see the end You were afraid you'll fall forever, But you seeped through my eyes and I held on to you for a million years. You crawled through the webs my capillaries were. Beneath my skin, you built a world of shadows, with my blood that could've been an ocean of mist. And with my bones that couldn't have been your shore. You drowned in my veins seemingly my scarlet life Because I carried you within my blood. But, love, when they saw you hiding within my irises they tore me apart but I did not cry, and I smiled for they had not known, you were me and I were you. They did not see we're inseparable. They told me I'm insane and hollow But, love, I promise I did not keep quite. I told them you were with me, shining through my eyes, walking on the rail (that could be my collarbone) And stumbling into my ribs. That you were my glow in the darkest dark and that you smile but they can't see it. They told me that you would never come back. I laughed but I felt empty, so I told them that you never left, that you'd lived within me for a thousand years. That you see the world through my sight, That you breathe with my lungs That you're alive within me Because I've felt you around me protecting me from the lie they call truth. They asked me to show them where were you. I kept my hand on my beating heart and felt your heart beat within mine. I smiled and bled for the first time (again) And though my blue veins leaked crimson I knew I wasn't bleeding Because you'd had healed my wounds Long long long ago. They asked me to touch you, and I — I shattered. They told me that I am insane But I refused to believe. They told me I've lost you forever and I swear I — I scattered. Realization hit me through my soul, tearing through my flesh. Rancorous and loud and throbbing and deafening and blinding and heavy and tangible and potent and inexistent and alive, an alive intensity humming with life and immortal and eternal and everlasting. My heart did not beat my fingers are still unmoving, shins left split. A scream was left dormant within my ribcage, when it cracked my bones, and left a whisper that echoed through. I did not know I was so empty that whispers bounded off from my walls and drowned into my flesh and ripped through. And my wretched gashes spewed scarlet. (My scarlet life) I guess it was called bleeding. But the memory of your last breath is the only reminder that you were real. Numbness and agony are my soul mates. And do you want to see my inside? Don't worry it's just webs and shadows and darkness and desolation and it's deserted and bleeding with echoes splashing within my broken veins and fractured ribs and twisted muscles And wrecked smile and gray and black. But still-blue eyes, staring up at the starless sky. finding a constellation that never existed.