when you asked me for my heart
I gave it unwillingly, unknowingly
mouths fumbling/ fingers stumbling over/ eyes engulfing
each other
there was an inferno billowing out of me
and I said, don't ever leave me/don't ever abandon me
you whispered into my hair
never, never
hands tangled in the threads of my body
we etched our stories into constellations/ seared it into the heavens
and you whispered into my neck
forever, for always
I was alive then
under skies dripping with stars/blooded with our promises
I felt so alive then
But when you asked for my heart
such a terror, such a horror clawed up my lungs
That I felt the sky fall and the stars burn out
and I remembered your words
never, never/forever, for always
I was never truly alive then
