Why Do I Stay?

This one is about a man who is in love with this woman even though everything about her terrifies him. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it!

Why Do I Stay?

Why do I stay?

I am sitting away from her, just enjoying this time I have to myself.

I suffocate when I'm with her.

I can finally breathe.

Her presence fills the air and invades my lungs and strangled heart.

My chest is always throbbing,

my heart trying to wrench itself free from it's organic prison.

I catch her hostile figure in the corner of my eye and she electrocutes me.

She's high voltage and I can't escape the wires.

She blows my circuits and I'm static on her sweater.

Why do I stay?

Because I can never get away.

I think of this as she gradually advances upon me,

like an executioner to the gallows.

I swallow a massive lump in my pulsing throat as I fumble with trying to think of something to say,

But then our eyes meet...And I am lost.

Her green irises are galaxies and her pupils are black holes.

Why do I stay?

Because I am trapped.

Held close by the crushing grip of those black holes.