Literature
this is what it feels like
when you look for love in other people's flesh-
search for it in the curve of their hips, the dip of their lips
the tightness of stomach and swell of their breasts
- it becomes almost too easy to forget
how quickly we rot,
how willingly our bones sink back into the cold embrace of earth
so simple to lose yourself in their meaningless touch.
but when you find love in someone's soul,
hear it in the drumbeat of their heart,
the sigh in their breath or sound of their steps
(and you breakshiversnap because you'll bend,
every fucking time,
in any direction they ask you)
when you find love like that,
you never stop imagining exactly how e