I will treat you like your atoms and mine trace back to the same supernova.
Like youve always been, and infinitely will remain a part of me.
Always the red in the apple that tempted Eve.
God & Man
That its always neon radiance.
Its always colors that before your voice I had not known.
Ill hold your heart in my hands cupped, ever so gently.
Keep it close to my chest like the blood was my own.
Ill carve out a whole chamber from my heart, and in that space build you a home.
I will give you a place in which you’re free to feel like you always belong.
Believe me when I tell you that your hands will never be empty of anything.
Ill give you more love than you know what to do with.
Everything inside me will be for you too.
The wordlonelinesswill become extinct from your vocabulary.
I will carry the boulder between my two shoulders if you let me.
I will give you quiet when you need me to.
Put my hand in yours when the last thing you need is solitude.
I will learn to tell the difference between the two.
I will work overtime to help you slay your ghosts.
I will help you nail each grave marker into the ground.
These hands want to caress the face of your every demon.
I will crack open my chest and pull apart each rib to introduce you to my own.
you could confess your every crime, your every sin, to me.
Ill love you like it has always been you.
Like it was you before I ever even saw your face.
I will immortalize you with my words, paint you in ways no muse has been in history.
I will trace verses of poetry on your back from rib to rib each night before you fall asleep.
When I write, itll be like I long since buried any metaphor that came before you.
I will touch you like I never knew holy until I came into contact with your skin.
I will touch you like we were meant to commit sacrilege.
Like were two wildfires that cant be put out.
Like the world could be ending and I couldnt stop.
I will love you until you give me reason not to.
And when I leave, I will leave you like I never loved you.
I will leave you when I realize the worst thing you could have ever done was against my heart.
When the worst crime you commit becomes one against this love.
Thats the one blood I could not see on your hands and still touch.
I will not seek closure.
The way you surprised me with the knife will be closure enough.
Ill leave you the way one exits a crumbling building.
Loudly and not fast enough.
Yet, I will leave you the way a snake sheds its skin, slowly and quietly.
I will be somebody differently entirely.
You wont recognize me.
Itll be like you never touched me.
A heart who has now nailed an eviction notice on the front door.
Nights will feel threatening, heavy, and a little bit haunted by my memory.
Youll hear the saddest of ballads always playing in the background.
Youll miss me and the way I could bring to life the sweetest of melodies.
Youll start to miss a place you cannot run back to.
You will think of a home you lost the directions to get to.
When I leave, I leave for good.
I will forget every letter that makes up your name.
Her light will paint your body in light as devoid of the color I left your life in.
Nothing will ever look the same.
Because when I leave, I dont come back.
