last year i told myself i'd stop playing with fire
because the thing is
the brightest flames burn out the fastest.
so i played with sparks and swam in fireworks -
brilliant, fast & painless.
and then i met you
it was static
pure electricity that held us together
i couldn't tire of you
i couldn't stay away from you
it didn't matter if we were lying next to each other
or if you were ten thousand miles away,
i wanted to feel your back against mine
and i wanted to wake up to your voice
i was almost certain there were parts of me that were buried,
parts that would only surface when i could feel again.
when it happened you were there,
you saw the great void in my soul
and you did what nobody else had ever done,
you glanced and never took another look.
it was that easy. but it was all i needed.
i used to believe that everything is uglier up close -
not you
