i've met your kind before dark and hollow predictable yet intriguing it always seems authentic when it begins the right words gestures movements and stares roll off of you as though this were meant to be but there is always that one moment when you shift gears and the light hits your face in just the right way where i can see that you are no good for me but even in the moment where truth is born i still find ways to make myself stay to believe the lie to think that it is i wh

I want a lover a lover who not only sees me but knows me the way that flower knows its root the way the moon knows its luminescence the way those birds know the current of the wind I want someone to peel me open like the skin of an orange, the flesh of its shell and drink me whole I want a lover who digs into me with hands scouring hills fingernails laden in lust lips wet with hunger eyes wide open I want this the way you want me I see this from the longing in your eyes the w