When you



When you hold my hand, I feel the calluses on your fingertips graze against the soft paleness of mine.

Together, we elevate. Standing like the cherry keychain above your guitar on the wall.


When you run your fingers through my hair, the oils on your hands entwine in my strands, your fingers getting caught.

I smell like you.


When you hold me in your arms, I can hear the general warmth of your breath kiss my cheek.

The rhythm of our hearts harmonize.


When you tell me jokes, my lungs contract as I struggle for a breath above the crashing waves of my laughter.

I don’t deserve you.


Where you take me dancing, I see the pink light of the room flash across your face, turning you purple.

The green-gold between us shimmers. I can’t look away.


When you look into my eyes, I become a ghost. My being exposed and transparent, lost in the beautiful darkness of a glass room, tinted the color of coffee.

You see through me.


When you say “I love you”, I sit in the warm puddle of joy derived from those words, and lay beneath the debris of guilt for the time and energy I cause you to spend, when you love someone so unworthy of all that is you.
 
I say it back.
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Written on April 25, 2022

Submitted by Amaecoleman on April 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:15 min read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X A X X X A X X B B A X
Characters 1,183
Words 252
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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