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m e t a p h o r

"you are not made out of metaphors"

-sarah kay

you were love

when I didn't know its definition,

you were love

when I thought it was all hearts and hands

that filled the vague, sprawling word,

you were love

when you weren't everything,

but you danced along the lines

of my poetry,

pushing the limits of words

that can't describe your beauty,

and you seemed like everything

to me

but I have to remember

you are not made out of metaphors;

I can't say you're a teacup 

brimming with tears and swirled stars,

or a knife

that doesn't know how to draw blood,

only cutting buttercream cakes

to shove in our faces like children,

when you're just a girl who fumbles

with my hand,

reaching for the love 

I don't know how to give

our hands once tangled

in a knot I never wanted to untie

was not a metaphor,

only a daydream

of how we used to be,

of the laughs you breathed out

and the love I breathed in,

of the melodic air between us

stretched and sweetened

with the four letter word I never knew

until I knew you