milgwimper

you were my five day summer. I fell in love with the maze of your veins and the hum of your heartbeat. I lost vital parts of me between the brick of your walls, and yet I found myself a thousand times in the tangle of your stories and the gravel of your skin. you whispered secrets in my hair and I laughed like ice cream, and all the scents and all the flavors that you taught me are now nacreous pigments in my larynx. it's in your hold that I was sent to sleep with exhaustion dripping from my lips and satisfaction nestled in my limbs. I came to you to escape from the things that have settled deep inside my bones, and I c