Life is short so let me die
tangled in your hair at this timeless hour
Of god knows when when it’s so dark and quiet
Outside I can hear your soul’s echo
In the breaths you soften into my neck
As I bite and grasp you like you’re the last
thing I’ll ever taste.

Life can be so simple, just let me stay in this moment where
I’m all sensation, subsumed in you with a blank mind and
A full heart and my spirit shouts and erupts into my brain
Like a kiss from god.

I sleep and dream of us on vacation in Cairo
And we’ve never been happier until the missile strikes begin
And you’re in one building and I’m in another and
I try running to you as the city collapses and
20 feet feels like a universe away.

But we aren’t there, we’re here
So let’s fuck forever until we’re old and broken
and smell only of memory and I’ve forgotten
Everything except for the way your body feels
On my fingers and lips
And the way it lights up the dark in a way
I can see even with my eyes closed.