I want you to listen to
my breath in your heart,
remember that I'm there,
feel me overindulge in your blood,
******* teeth rot in your love.

Oh! Torturous love you can hinder me no more.
Your painful presence cannot leave me wounded for
I am filled with delectable thoughts of another.
I thought my heart dead, perceptible only to your faint memory,
But it is beating once more.
I tell you, ruffian love, I see him in the depths of my dreams!
He has coiled himself around my heart and although it beats in my chest with
persistent pounding
I am at peace.
My mind can rest in his gaze.
My thoughts can sleep in his embrace.

I tried to send you my love
In a letter.
To my dismay, the wax melted,
The seams ripped,
And I was left
To sit
With my love in my lap.
I don't mind,
It seems I can cradle you
In my knees.

there was a moment
when i looked at you,
and all my senses
shifted.
it seemed that everything altered -
only slightly,
and became attuned
to you.
it continued
until everything in view,
all that i breathed,
saw,
and knew to be true
was you.
reflecting in my pupils,
resounding in my ears,
conquering all scents,
and common sense,
too.

well, you're crazy about her, he said.

but you're here instead.

our eyes met,

it was morning.

the sun hit his face in a

way that erased all of

his freckles.

he smiled.

i laughed.

we paused.

so, you love her, he said.

i said yes.

then he asked me to leave her.

i left.