i. you are just words now, words and memories, of misused limbs and mispronounced vowels rolling from the tips of your eyes. fix it. i miss your skin.

ii. because i forget my shoes when it rains, and you remember my lunch. and you make me coffee. and i’m bitter and you’re sweet. and puddles don’t show how beautiful your eyes glisten. i’m sorry.

iii. you remind me of an octopus, with teeth like a shark and a grip like an infuriating faux grinned tequila shot.

iv. you should have known that my feet aren’t connected to my logic, that my fingers loop where they don’t want to be, that i can run further than i can breathe, and you can only run so far before your gone.

v. you’re amazing wrapped in flesh, and monsters shouldn’t gnaw at your bones like they do, and your smile should be real. if i could build a wall around you out of famished bricks, i would (because i worry about you).

vi. a puppet on strings and eyes brighter than mine. the innocence of a child in tan, and a graze of chipped teeth and broken fingers. don’t let them get you; you deserve the world – what’s left of it.

vii. there were stars trapped in your veins, and lullabies in oxygen – mellifluous words across dark hallways and secret flesh under your protective shield. you don’t exist the way i want you to.

viii. the fire in your soul can’t warm you anymore, the cigarettes taste like ash and your heartbeat is stuck in your fingernails. i’d save you, but you wouldn’t have the time.

ix. oaky limbs and yellow teeth in a scornful smile, grease slugged into your eyelids and your knees stab into my ribs every time you move. laughing peanuts and scoobie snacks, and i’d apologise if it was in my vocabulary.

x. you drive your body with sex appeal dripping from freckles, secrets and lies rolled into your shoelaces and fingers capable to snap a neck with ease. you don’t need this.

xi. i cant look at you anymore, i cant stand seeing you look back at me with hollow stares and asteroids caught in your knotted hair, with your mouth pulled into a scream and your teeth biting through your bloody lips. disappear. waste away. i dare you.