in the ballroom your eyes like comets mine like phosphorescent lights in the humid july sky
our arms moving like seaward ships caught you stranded amidst the violence eyelashes that swayed in the wind you saw me, you asked me to dance
i don’t believe everything is as it should be it was just a kiss, i don’t think i actually miss you or maybe i’m slowly getting addicted to the cadence of your voice every night, it’s back to that july or was it november weather?
you touched my hand with a fiery blaze that pranced inside that stuffy room you gave me a glance, i gave you a chance you could’ve tumbled from the balcony would my reaction time have been as swift as when you had caught me by surprise?
why am i such a fool? if it had started with you we could have fled together like panicked soldiers from the esteemed battlegrounds their forefathers fought for so their successors could lose their next battles and get captured and chained against walls
and i wanted you, i was only a husband away from kissing you, touching you, impaling you
you were moments away from calling my bluff it’s enough, i’m in handcuffs while you stand in the ballroom your eyes on me like you’re the spotlight and i’m your stage device
we danced like we meant it would you have given me up for a fairer maiden? one with less personality issues and without a right hand man? would you have stopped if i told you that dancing is for ghosts in empty hotels?
i would have died trying in a slashed wedding dress if the force i called my lover didn’t snag my clothes on his irregular branches
i can’t see beyond these singing cliffs please kiss me on the dock of my yacht i’ll adore you until you ***** me over or until i ***** you over and we become ashes on the riverbed that was the location where my lips touched yours on the grass not on the ballroom steps not with a cigarette in your mouth
you were slipping through the gloves i wore? i don’t recall, did the background start to get blurry when you swept me off my feet? did i panic? did you love it? did you notice the electricity escaping from my palms?
i spotted your pupils become lucid the lights didn’t even change colors and you danced with some kind of suitor but i don’t know who you are or what your motives are just know that the mirror can only hold evil if it’s as marvelous as you
the patterns of your footsteps in my nightmares or perhaps in the trances my exhilaration transports me to
are
lurking in the shadows in the doorframes the hallways of trains i haven’t stepped toes in complaints flooding the mailboxes i happen to own
i loaned you my heart as a temporary ornament you could dangle like candy in front of adored damsels looking to be courted i’m becoming the focal point in your daily struggle to gain power over the situation that sadly owns me
waltz inside of my irises instead of on the floating platform that is about to crumble beneath the soles of our dress shoes
my conscience buried in the thawing soil
did you lose sight of the plans you foiled?
whistle to the carriage you paid for open the door for the feeble woman in the backseat it would have boiled your blood, and so i would’ve kissed your lips
but ghosts don’t dance in ballrooms; they just sit and watch everyone else become brides and grooms and they feel the tug every single time the room erupts in sudden laughter they wait like stubborn angels at the noisy soirée anticipating the collapse of young souls like me and you
and therefore; the downfall we have will be a spectacle your disintegration in the mirror will be a quotidian one as i watch your bones dance in your body like little puppets in a silly drama
catch me when i fall for the doors i have entered before haven’t restored my soul and i would have kissed you or even said i missed you if he wasn’t the person he was if you weren’t the person you are and if i was completely unaware of the consequences of mistakenly false coincidences perhaps i would have put my lips to yours outdoors as the creek entertained our obscene selves and heard our dramatic moans and groaned “good riddance”
“good riddance indeed”
our tempers fizzled and the skeletons were evicted from our closets good causes, it’s my fault—it’s just that i said all those cheery things to impress you as if you were Socrates or someone of such high standing; undoubtedly, you are
but the cliff i leaped off of slowly became you—the ghost in the castle walls who waltzes with gorgeous girls just to dream of what it would be like to kiss them, touch them, impale them
i wonder how it felt to be in control to hold me like i would puncture your skin like some breed of lovesick vampire
i was only a girl in love with a future she could not let unfold because she had a husband waiting at home
waiting for her to slip up feeling less and less in control
but with your gaze like lightning ignoring is such a demanding reality and i want to kiss you, i miss you, this isn’t a petty joke join me in the meadow hands in mine and touch me, kiss me, impale me
wow. super proud. just found out. this is vague. listen to suki waterhouse right now. byes