8. someone else
if I could accept the love of another
or allow them to caress me
in the ways I have dreamed you would
perhaps the loneliness that sterilizes my heart
and corrupts my mind into twisting in on itself
would finally slither away
but if their eyes don't hold the entrance to your soul
and their voice doesn't possess the ability to douse my entire body in glacier water
then I want absolutely no part in them
for they will never stand where you stand
kicking at the dust inside my heart
and finding an opening into my veins
to run with my blood
you are the only thing in this universe that I would accept
and that is my problem
you have thoroughly ruined me
