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Oct 2013
Its nights like this where I just want drum out the beats of your heart with my fingertips. I want to feel the resistance to separate each and every kiss.
I want to see your dark brown eyes illuminated with starlight and moonbeams dancing between the thick black strands of your hair.
I want to sing lullabies and then wake you from sleep to remind you I'm still there.
I want to whisper dreams across the pillowcase and wrap your arms around me until we've fallen in too deep.  
I want to make dances out of your restlessness and poems from your mumbling.
I want to be the reason you’re bursting with color and in the dark I want to us to love one another.
It’s those nights that I long, but here, by myself, the nights drag on.
I close my eyes and reminisce through a slideshow of memories filled with pure bliss.
I hope that one day we’ll live like that.
Where our scattered clothing makes a perfect picture on the floor and the sliver of light coming from under the door will warn us of morning. I want to be there when it’s too early to for your mouth to form words and your irises are born anew.
I want to walk with you through winter, spring, summer, and fall. I just want to feel it all.
Every little smile and stupid little joke; I want to live through the fire and the smoke.
I could give you the world and it still wouldn't mirror what you're worth to me.
I want to dig so far and wide and long and deep that we unearth heaven from under the sea. Imagining forever with you has become my sleepless obsession.
So when the darkness holds your breath and the wind bites at your cheek, just know, those are the nights where I give you my heart piece by piece.
And on nights like tonight remember that it is yours to keep.
Date Written: 10/23/2012
Raeann Burkey
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Raeann Burkey  Michigan
(Michigan)   
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