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La petite mort

Until today, I never understood heartache.

 

I never understood that thinking about you (how the thoughts come unbidden yet so welcome entrancing encompassing dizzying worrying wonderful) -

your name

your voice - strong and low, speaking softly, only for me

the thickness of your hair, the way it feels against my fingers when I hold your head in my hands

the way your skin tastes after a night of making love

the warmth of your hands and your mouth and your laugh

your scent, that somehow reminds me of both my childhood and times and places I have never known

 

the feeling of you inside me, molded close and perfect, and the way you toss your head and ***** up your eyes while we're at our peak, as if I were the one who was so unmissable

 

- could make my insides curl and twist so hard that I have to stop what I'm doing, set down my glass or pen, stop dead in the middle of the sidewalk.

 

I am drowning in you, taking in deep lungfuls of you, absorbing you into my bloodstream.

The sweetest little death I could ever imagine.

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amanda-jerry
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Nov 2, 2014
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