dont leave flowers on my grave

iii. isolé étoile

lonesome, shining star

in a midnight sky

i want you

in the most raw way possible

i want you shattered in pieces

i want you exposed

in the cold limelight

show me your darkness

you know i believe it's so much

prettier than the light

that anyone can admire

i crave to be a witness

of your openness

your bruised skin

your battered wounds

up close and personal

fragments of your past

painstaking to recollect

behind the drugs and alcohol

you think is all you are

reality is that you're so much more

everything i need

is in the daydream locked behind

those sad baby blue eyes

your broken parts define

not who you are

but who you are becoming

every battle you've lost

the white flags you've rendered

every time you gave in

every time you broke down

and cried silver tears

because you can't see yourself

as strong enough

you don't think you'll make it out alive

i cannot make you see what i see

but when i look up at you

i see undiscovered galaxies colliding

i see the sun and moon and

ever-burning stars

for when i am with you

i see myself, a violent bloody red

and then you

a gentle, irresolute cerulean blue

mixing to make these

beautiful shades of violet

pretty baby

you just don't understand

how lovely you are

how much strength you hold

in your fragile heart

and you'll you never know

how i came to love you more

each time you let yourself break

in my hands