Oh, love

I know it's been forever

(Please don't look at me that way)

But I really need you now.

I mean

You and I both know

It's only a matter of time before I come crawling back to you

Every time

Right?

(I can just barely remember a time when that wasn't so.)

For now

I think it's best

We just forgive and forget --

You know, be virtuous and all that --

Because I love you --

I really do --

And I truly haven't needed something in a long while

As much as I need you

Right this very second.

In fact, my dear

You're making me hurt just by standing there --

Oh, and what a sweet agony --

Just staring at me

Waiting on me.

You have me so entranced

So transfixed

That just seeing you, so close to me

So accessible

Just about kills me.

I swear

As soon as our eyes met

From across this crowded room

My stomach tied itself into a captain's knot

My heart bared down on the gas pedal

My bones caved in on one another

Leaving me a horrifically contorted abstract figure

A caricature of humanity.

(Look at me -- I'm ruined.)

I could barely even walk to meet you

For the pain ripping through me.

I figure you should know. that

Despite the nauseating feeling of anguish overtaking me

You still looked so marvelously enticing

Inviting enough to have me salivating

Like one of Pavlov's dogs.

(You ruined me.)

So now

I'm standing in front of you

Practically begging on my knees --

Oh, how humiliating --

Pleading for you to

Please, please, please

Take me back

Help me out

Put me out of my misery.

Of course, my love

Being who you are

All it takes is those few words

For you to take me in your arms

And hold me tight enough

To ensure that I won't be going anywhere

For a very long while.

I close my eyes

Feeling every wound heal by your touch alone

And feel truly human

Truly awake

Truly alive

For the first time

Since I last left.

Oh, love

How did I ever live without you?

(I ruined me.)