lucid • midnight poetry

i think

can you feel my pulse
I think I'm holding my breath

For so long I've been living other people's lives
Stealing breath for myself and crying when they die
And yet when I look into your trusting eyes
I think
I don't want to lie

I can't feel my pulse
There's nothing left in me
It's not that I've been dying
It's just how it's always been

If you won't let me go
You'd best prepare to stay
It's not my fault, I warned you
If you're here now I think it's too late

You're everything I ever wanted me to be
There's no one else I'd rather take the life that is in me
If you're gonna love me then you'll have to set me free
I think
You're all I need to see

If I get close to you
I'll take your breath away
So you must come to me
And then - and then I'll stay

Hold me in your arms
I won't ask for more
It's the breathing, I think
That keeps me on this side of the door

Yeah it's the breathing
   The breathing that keeps me awake
If I just stop breathing
    I think I'll be okay

If I get close to you
I'll take your breath away
So you must come to me
And then - and then I'll stay

Hold me in your arms
I won't ask for more

No I won't ask for more

can you hear my heart
it was beating just for you
and now
I think
I don't need it to

—crazy gods
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