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Aug 2014
I want to taste the sun on your skin
And I want to feel the spark of passion light a million cigarettes between our lips
There was nothing soft about the way you held me
You squeezed me so tight my bones crumbled into the sea
I wanted to believe we fit together like pieces of a puzzle
But I was the corner and you were all the parts of the sky
You are more beautiful than the milky way
And more terrifying than the Pompeii
Your eyes to me were bluer than the sea
Deeper than the sea
More mysterious than the sea
Your eyes of water started a fire within me
A fire within me so hot it boiled the sorrow in my lungs
And charred the tips of my ribs
I’m burning alive in my own skin
Please don’t leave my fire burning
Put me out please I beg you
Please I can’t scream any louder!
Please help move your hands from my throat
Please my ears won’t stop ringing
Suffocate the passion that chokes my soul
I would rather be empty than burned to the bone
Please the fire is consuming me
You should have never started this fire within me
If you had no intention to manage it
I hope you are happy
There is nothing left for anyone to love
Not unless they like the smell of burning trust
And that old taste of cigarettes on my mouth
You were the sea
You were that ****** sea
That started the fire within me
Sarah Gartner
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Sarah Gartner  Chicago, IL
(Chicago, IL)   
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