my cherry lip gloss stain on your cheek…
and how you gripped to keep the car door closed
as if you were afraid opening it would mean
everything we felt in that moment would fall out
never again to be contained
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you close your heart
and you think it is a safety,
but it is a violence against yourself
in the quietest of ways,
yes, quiet, but still a violence,
a brutal, aching violence,
and to love, it is bravery,
and no small bravery,
but a fearless, grand reach into
an uncontrollable unknown,
yes, an uncertainty,
but maybe, what a beautiful unknown
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i just like your way,
the way you feel, how you are,
who you are… i’m just drawn to you.
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may my heart
be the softest place you fall,
may this love
be the wildest place you run
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you remind me
what heaven’s air felt like…
i think you’re here to
walk me home
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the way the
sunlight danced on her skin
and stardust lived in her eyes…
he knew he’d never want
to look away
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you are so wildly beautiful in all of
the ways i could ever imagine for
someone to be beautiful
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maybe we
could just kiss,
for hours,
like it’s everything,
like it’s art,
with no other
intention
but this
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we could just kiss, for hours…
like it’s everything. like it’s art.
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you have
such strong hands,
but my heart is such a soft thing,
so this could go one of two ways…
you could crush it
with the weight of all you are,
or maybe those strong hands could take
such a fragile thing
and hold it safe with the weight
of all you are
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he is
so beautiful,
but i love in energy,
so let me tell you of
just how
beautiful he feels
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