Lips upon Lips/ You could be Anyone

When I first saw you, I knew I had fallen, I knew that I had failed completely. When you smiled, I realised that everything I knew about life, was worthless. When you smiled, it was as though you were defying everything, everything I had ever thought was true. You wiped away every meaning and set yourself in its place.

 

I began to unravel. Fibre and fibre pulling away from each other and fraying down to separate strands.

 

I think that the first moment I saw you, I hated you. Twisted up inside with my bitter jealousy.

 

It didn’t work though. It became serious. Limbs were threatening to break away. I was unravelling beyond repair. A mess of multi-coloured threads.

 

You are an intoxication. Perhaps a poison. Filling my lungs and my body to the point of extinction.

 

Time passed, as it does, and I suppose something must have changed. For there is something about you, something attractive, something that clings like a terminal disease. Unshakable.

 

I found the answer eventually; I kissed you. I kissed you and suddenly everything made perfect sense.

 

(Does everything make perfect sense?)

 

And now, you are lying on the bed. Limbs askew, lips parted. You made me see colours, red and blue. But they bored me. And so you now you are lying on the bed, and now you are the furthest you have ever been from me; you are so close I can smell your skin and you are so far I can barely see your face.

 

We are driftwood on a frozen sea. And so soon.

 

I liked it better when I didn’t know. Ignorance is bliss. The thought of lips upon lips.

 

You stir on the bed and I glance over, pen poised.

 

What is there left to do? I have done everything. You could be anyone.

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