You’re a good bullet point to add to a list
of reasons to equate humans to natural disasters.
(I’m pressing red on the remote
but the earth’s still shaking.)
I reduce people down to the parts
of them that remind me of you.
I’m not saying you ruined me,
only that you’ve stuck me in a cycle
of viewing others geometrically.
The angle of my new roommate’s jaw
is a little akin to the slope of your collarbone.
(I’m setting fire to the house
but the sea keeps rising.)
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I romanticized you
to the point where
the knives you pressed
into my skin
began to look
like Cupid’s arrows.
I get jealous because I’m afraid someone is going to make you happier than I do.
Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me,
that you wrecked me,
destroyed me.
I am the only one who has the power to do that.I loved you, and I ruined myself,
I wrecked myself,
I destroyed myself.And I will keep doing so for as long as I am breathing.
You shouldn’t have
come here, made
of fireworks, if you
didn’t want me to
play with fire.
We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.
I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.
looking at you it occurred to me
I could sit around all day
wearing nothing but your kiss.
I am tired of
reaching into myself
and pulling out pieces
of you.