I want you to rip the messy sutures from my stitched-up heart and I want to love you with my chest wide open. I want the icy air to whisper across my bared arteries and scoop the black from my lungs I want you to kiss me so hard blood runs down my teeth. I want to taste the salty crimson on my tongue and know I am still breathing, that I still have a pulse. I want your eyes to burn holes in my skin & the cauterized nerve endings to emit a single sharp scream I need your sweaty palms to take away the sting. I want you to wake me from this gray unending dream. I know meteorites always hit the sun or crash to earth, but I want our comet to blaze through the night sky for a few bright seconds before the freefall. I will ignore the craters you'll carve from my bones. I know I will end up lying in a hospital bed with skin grafts and bleeding bandages, but I want the rose-tinged words that will leak from my eyes like saline-tipped blades. I want to slowdance with cyanide. I want to tiptoe on a razor-littered sidewalk. I want to swim with sharks; I want to dip my hand in fire; I want a gradual descent from a cliff with a tattered parachute; I want to toss my heart into your freckled arms. I want your fingers around my neck before I realize it. I want you to destroy me. I want your smile to eat me alive.