My mind is electric and my heart hums
I am backwards but I like it because you always love me more when I am something broken for you to fix
I take apart my bones so you can slot them back together and pat yourself on the back
I am never quite the same after you leave your bloody fingerprints upon my organs
I am suspended and you think I’m falling but I’m flying but you want to catch me so I let myself go
I sacrifice everything for you so you can feel like I need you
(I don’t need you, I just want you.)
Together we are a beautiful nothing
I fly toward the sun with you so we can fall together and you can breathe air back into my deflated lungs
You anchor me and I pretend as though I don’t want to fly away
I wait for us to dissolve together, I pretend to be nonpolar so we are miscible
Dig your nails into my skin, hold my DNA beneath your keratin claws
Leave everyone behind and keep me forever
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