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are we really strangers?

February 13, 2023
By valentinealeigh GOLD, Royal Oak, Michigan
valentinealeigh GOLD, Royal Oak, Michigan
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I walk down the street and every strangers face turns into yours

I try to sleep and my dreams warp into the soft shape of your body and your hands

Your hands holding mine, fingers intertwined

And I wake up screaming just before I get to hear you say that you love me

Or that you could

I'll turn myself inside out and expose every ugly piece of myself

Lay myself bare in front of you and let you ravish me

Swallow me whole and keep me forever

Can we lay in the water chained together in the worst of storms?

Wait for the lightning to strike and illuminate us with the same electricity that first kiss did

From that first kiss I knew this would end too soon

Let me consume you, build a shrine behind my eyelids

Burn yourself into my brain, make me ill

If I don't have anymore sadness left in me, that means I don't have anymore of you left in me

And I can't live with that

So I stay up listening to your favorite songs and I analyze every single word I hear

I'm living this life like it's my last because it might be

Because my deepest fear is we'll never meet again, that this is our only chance


The author's comments:

we will meet again


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