Icantbreathewhenimwithyou

 

 

You kiss my lips-and steal the breath from my bones 

You look at me with the fire you've tamed and use for eyes-and my soul melts 

You touch me-and I can't feel anything except the gliding of your nails over a hardened flesh 

 

My head must weigh a hundred pounds, from all the things I wish I could say to you 

But when I'm around you, you take my breath away

And how can I speak if I can't even breathe?

I could force the words out, but then they wouldn't be genuine 

I can't stay quiet, because I need you to know

So I say what I can say, but it's never enough

 

I can never encapsulate every last ounce of beauty that resides in you

No one ever could 

Not with this poem

Not after a thousand years of telling you that I love you

I have so many things I need to say to you

But never enough time to get them all out

So in between each period of conversation

I trust that you know what I'm feeling

 

I could never accurately describe the sparkle in your eye

The edge of your whispered words in the dark

Or the way you come alive in the night

Or the fire that burns so brightly in your soul, but very few people can see it

I've been kissed by your magic, not that you've put me under any spell; you'd never need one

Just knowing you is magic enough

To lay with you at night, to bleed my heart onto paper just for you to read, to be the one that dares pretend to be worthy of your love

 

Are not things I take lightly

You've such a weighted character, never something I'd take lightly

 

I can't ever tell you how much I enjoy your presence in this otherwise dull and void world

So I just have to trust that you can see it

 

With every passing glance

Every graze of skin 

Everytime I move your hair out of your eyes 

When I open doors for you

When I refuse to back down from helping you

When I ask you how your day went

Everything I do has at least a little bit of love for you wedged in between even the darkest parts of me 

 

You kiss my lips-and steal the breath from my bones 

And though I've never felt so free in my life before, 

And you fill me with things I didn't know existed 

And you've pumped new life into me

And I will never feel anything but ecstasy for the things you do

 

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Cantbreathewhenimwithyou