JAMIE H.
love was easy when we were young.
our skin was softer then, we had fewer bones, fewer teeth. those were days of nectar and ambrosia and ice-cream-sandwiches, when we were scared of monsters under our beds, sleeping together, away from the edges talking for hours to get the fear out of our heads we grew older and stopped drinking milk and honey our limbs became longer, and you started reaching for things far from home that i couldn’t fathom so we ran away from our paradise together we read poetry but we don’t understand the metaphors (although we both pretend to) and learn that there are no monsters under our beds, there are only the ones we create in our heads we survive on cigarettes and wine alone and before we know it, we are not who we used to be our skin has toughened and our teeth have sharpened, our bodies have become weapons to wreak havoc love is now consume or be consumed and everything is trying to tear us apart. you said you are going to run away again back to the paradise of our childhoods you ask me not to come with you. when the search party finds you they think you’ve gone insane, dancing in the desert and calling for rain, arms outstretched like you were trying to catch water falling from the lips of a drunken god. but i know the truth. you finally found what you’d gone looking for and returned to the paradise we’d known as children. |
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