he only wants you in the way that means he can wrap himself around you like a cocoon to help you change you'll be a butterfly something different from what you are which is flawed so flawed i don't want to touch you don't want to talk to you just write poems about the way your hands fist in the pockets of your jacket i hope you'll go with him because no matter how many poems i write about the way you hurt and hate and hope in helpless hollows i know it'll still burn like a rope you tried to catch when you fell but it just caught the skin of your palms [please don't ever open my notebook you look at it sometimes when i'm writing i don't ever want you to see the way i romanticize your pain it's not beautiful or poetic it's just sad i wish you were happy but i just keep writing poems about your misery and when you surface when you emerge from your cocoon i will write odes dedicated to the selfishness that would keep you hurting so i could feel something when i look at you] he only wants you in the way that stitches want an open wound and i know you want to be mended but no, no, nobody can fix you but you and they, they will try but just stitch embroidery into your back you are the seamstress and the shredded quilt: you can stitch yourself together you just need to find the thread and love is no substitute for a sharp needle. don't unclench your fists for any lover who promises to fix you don't shotgun old wounds like thick smoke if they promise anything more than to hold them in their lungs until the pain eases just a little. he will cocoon you and let you out confused and hurt and hating yourself because you didn't change you are not a butterfly you will not wake up beautiful: just learn to be full because the end of the word is all that matters and the last words of a relationship are the most honest.
when you stitch yourself together i will wear the rope that caught your palms like a silk collar pour your perfume like lighter fluid and burn my notebook and hope that no one writes ballads to your clenching fists again