If I could be a place, you are the place I would be.
What shall we do,
All of us?
All of us passionate girls
who fear crushing
the boys we love
with our mouths
like caverns of teeth
our mushrooming brains,
our watermelon hearts?
currently reading blood roses.
currently feeling unrest.
What did it mean for us? Because everything I did,
everything that happened to me, that was
what I asked myself-- what does it mean for us.
It meant I was farther away from you, different.
It meant that if we let ourselves, we could get
closer than we had ever been. Disappear into
each other. You'd bleed and I wouldn't. Then we
both would.
When you died, I did and so it didn't matter.
"There's this whole world I want to see. I forget sometimes. I can't breathe here," he said.
All of us?
All of us passionate girls
who fear crushing
the boys we love
with our mouths
like caverns of teeth
our mushrooming brains,
our watermelon hearts?
currently reading blood roses.
currently feeling unrest.
What did it mean for us? Because everything I did,
everything that happened to me, that was
what I asked myself-- what does it mean for us.
It meant I was farther away from you, different.
It meant that if we let ourselves, we could get
closer than we had ever been. Disappear into
each other. You'd bleed and I wouldn't. Then we
both would.
When you died, I did and so it didn't matter.
"There's this whole world I want to see. I forget sometimes. I can't breathe here," he said.