Breathe Easy

I like you

I should tell you that you have me looking forward to 4 AM

And for the day you tell me what keeps you from falling asleep

Because I get the feeling you don’t lie awake for the f**k of it.

 

You were the only person to ask what I was thinking

And I told you how people disappoint me without revealing too much.

 

You alluded to bad air still lingering with you

When girls left their scent behind,

Thick and uninviting like heavy humid nights

When mosquitoes coat your skin and suck you dry.

 

Someday I’ll tell you how I used to breathe in his madness

Treating it as if it were oxygen for the longest time.

 

I should tell you you’ve been a breath of fresh air

And I don’t feel as though you could ever inflict

The kind of gasping-for-life feeling I had grown accustomed to.

 

With me you could breathe easy.

 

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oh my this is really good. Such real raw emotions. Loved this