Held you. You was so small. Didn't want to tell how it felt to tower over you; you, a sea of freckles that you tried to hide behind powder and big (oh god, huge) eyes that halt life's momentum.
As mush, utterly, in thin pale hands.
Could throw you, I could, far and away from me; was that small. Hated being small. Wore high, high boots and low, low tops, but you was always small. Younger in years and yet your soul the wiser by far.
And we could never be, could we? You was good, I was bad. Tale neverending-- how'd that go again?
"You contain yourself," your words to the point. "Passion burns; I want to see you, feel you burn brightly in the sky. Let yourself go. Don't run away, don't dread. You will hurt me as hurtful is your way. No, simple man, perfection is a lie, but truth is so beautiful. Be you; don't spare me. I am here when the curtain falls."
"Can't. I seen pains," my words of the fearful, "in a forgotten place where the toil of love brings down the house built on mud. Poorly chosen, unwisely rushed." And yet, brave soul, you gave me hands, and rested the freckly face against my coffin of sentiment. Inhaled the gold curls; fell (for a while).
Freckles bared, small hands reaching. I could not hold for long.
Thanks. You know who you is. |