day after day i fail to talk myself out of you,
swimming through all the thoughts you flood into my mind,
drowning in all the words i swallow or can’t seem to find...
so i stay just far enough away to tell myself it's okay
that i think i’m in love with you.
.
through all the understated displays of closeted affection,
suffocating without all the breaths you take away,
disassociating over all that you say without speaking...
still i stay just far enough away and tell myself it's okay
that i’m so in love with you.
.
hoping and hinting to embrace this life long overdue
only spiraling, losing chance after chance at something real
desperately clinging, grasping at anything that feels new...
now i stay just a little farther away and convince myself to say
that i can't be in love with you.
About the Creator
Nelson James
Night after night the players died gruesomely, and they came back to life again for the next show. They were undying, like me. Creatures of perpetual resurrection...
Storyteller, creator, Aquarius Sun, probably an alien.
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