I imagined love like a book

Each page filled with turns

A love that is scary

A love that burns

I imagine her like paper

Delicate but sharp

Forever folded and creased

A paper white heart

Scars dance along the veins on her wrist

Running down like a river

She has a notepad stomach,

A paper brain and a liver

I wanted love like a picture book

But that’s hard to find

And she is perfect in every way

From her cover to her spine

She's fragile like paper

But she has a story like a book

And I go white like parchment

When she gives me that look

She was a blank canvas,

A fresh start

An escape from the past,

That stole my heart

But still, she keeps her guard up

Always keeps her distance

A thin veil  

That I fell through with little resistance

She is a paperback book

And I read her every night

Fingers littered with papercuts

She was a poem I didn’t write

She is a paper girl

And I have an origami heart

But I’d fall for her

Even though we’re chapters apart