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Soft jackets and bad habits
Honeyed eyes, a saccharine guise--
I swayed and flickered and you held me tighter
I’d burn and crumble and you’d piece me back together
Safe to smolder. Safe to split. Cling to you in my tumultuous tempest
A watery looking glass--gazed into you and saw my warped reflection.
Cracks in the same corners. Salt in the same infection.
I’d hold you if you held me first. Tight enough to press bruises into our sides,
But your edges cut sharper than my tides
Your silhouette lay jagged against the soft horizon,
Promises as sweet as a sirens,
I knew who you were--willingly I fell in
And it feels like drowning but I asked for it.
I needed to know that I exist.
The inferno, the monsoon,
Crushed the bridges I built to safety--
made every broken path lead back to you,
And now I don’t know what to do.
the color blue reminds me of you
the peace of the pastel ocean
the layer of quiet in the navy sky
or the joy of waking to a cloudless heaven up above
the blueberries sitting on a picnic blanket
or a bluebird singing overhead
and the tears i shed when you left.