US

                   I often dream of a grave… 

                       Deep and narrow,

 where it’s just us nothing more, nothing less.

          where the whole world could vanish, 

Yet I would still feel you, pressing against me. your arms wrapped around mine as if destiny itself had bound us so close that time could never tear us apart.

 My face buried in your chest, where I hear that steady thrum of your heart. 

                       And your breath,

                      Oh, your breath,

It touches the top of my head so softly, like a whispered vow.

                         The Grave 

              Where no one sees us.

        No one even knows we exist. 

               It is you, and it is me 

Lost, forsaken by the world, yet found in each other. 

            Oh, to have you, for forever.

To hold you in a place where nothing could reach us. Where nothing could break us.

Let me hide within you, love.

Let me melt into your skin, till we are no longer two,

But one ache… one heartbeat.

Sometimes, I think if the world could just fall away, and it was only us…

       Just the quiet hum of you and me.

your breath filling the spaces between my own, your skin against mine.

 The scent of you… filling me, overwhelming me,

 until I forget that there ever was a world outside of this, outside of us. 

I want to disappear into you, like ink spilling into water blurring, spreading, until there’s no ‘me’ and no ‘you’… just us.

 One. Just this moment, this fleeting moment, stretched into forever.

You cannot know, you cannot begin to fathom how I crave this. 

How desperately I need you.

 All of you. 

The way your hand fits perfectly on mine,

the way your lips brush against my neck softly, gently, as though they’re asking for something…

 something you can’t put into words.

 And God, I feel it too! 

That same quiet desperation. That hunger… a hunger that only grows, the more I have of you.

*I wish the world would leave us alone.*Disappear! 

Let us be forgotten, hidden from all that tries to tear us apart. 

For when I’m with you, nothing else matters.

 Nothing. 

Just your breath. 

Just your warmth. 

Just the way you look at me, like everything else has faded and we are left, bare, our souls stripped of all pretense, of all fear, of all that isn’t real.

I would rather be nowhere with you than everywhere without you.

You see there's this sadness in me, deep as the ocean… it swallows me whole, like the shore being taken away, again and again.

 Yet even in that darkness, when I think of you… I find peace. 

Yes, even there. 

I would stay there wrapped in the gloom if only it meant you were there with me. 

If only it meant we were holding each other so tight, so passionately,that not even the world itself could pry us apart.

You know,

Your love is a flame, and I… I am the moth.

Circling, burning.

But I can’t stop. No, I won’t stop.

For even in the fire, even in the pain, there is a beauty.

There is us.

And I’d rather burn with you, love,

Than fade into nothing without you.

Sometimes… I fear love is too much for me.

 It overwhelms me.

 It drowns me. 

But if I drown, I want to drown in you. 

Let our love be the last thing I feel, your arms the last thing I hold, your voice the final sound that's stuck in my ears as the world slips away.

And in that grave, in that  space, there is peace.

 There is quiet.

 It is us, forever. 

No fear of loss, no fear of the breaking. 

Just you and I, love, wrapped around each other, where nothing can reach us. 

Where nothing can tear us apart.

I would give up everything

Every piece of who I am

Just to be the one you hold

When the world falls heavy on your shoulders.

So,

Love me like the earth loves the sun,forever pulling, pulling, though they can never touch.

 Love me like the moon loves the night, even though the night never stays. 

Let us be infinite, my love, in this finite world.

 In this tiny, precious space we have carved for ourselves.

Let us be the last thing standing

In a world of broken things.

Let us be the love that never fades,

The kiss that lingers long after the light has gone.

Let us be the only truth

In a sea of lies and shadows.

I want to be the one you turn to when the world crumbles, the one you lose yourself in when everything falls apart. 

Because if I have you, I have everything. 

If all we have left is each other, that is enough. More than enough.

And in that grave, in that darkness, in that place.

I will find my peace. In you. Only you. Always you.