they say that love makes your heart flutter with molten gold warmth, and floods your veins with carmine nectar that makes your skin glow with amaryllis fluorescence.
but with you, i was ablaze.
you set me on fire, and watched
as scorching flames danced on
my skin with undiluted fervour
and burning sun fire passion.
you watched as your corrosive
fires torched and charred my bronze
skin, the roaring ocean in your eyes
ruffling and churning with the frigid wind.
and then you smiled, and i thought i
saw the whole universe collapse and
rebuild itself in your flickering smile.
you could hold a knife to my heart with
that smile and i would let you pierce my
fermenting flesh and bones because at
least i would die being surrounded by
the planets and stars that danced in
your celestial beauty.
people always thought you were cruel,
but to me you were always the one who
carried the universe in your palms, the one
who held up the stars. with you, i felt like
a golden god with synodic clusters of galaxies
clinging to my ribs; you could make anyone
feel like divinity. your hand in mine, and your
rose petal lips against mine, how could i not
feel like a god?
you tainted my skin with violet belladonna
and told me i glistened like the sun, but
the truth was that it was you who shone with
scintillating splendour. you could touch me
and i would burn luminously because of your
fiery touch that had the power to defy gravity
and set off nebulous catastrophes of flaring
stars. i was just an accretion disc compared
to the luminous galactic nulcei in your eyes
that shone so bright that even the sun got
blinded when it saw your dazzling beauty.
you asked me if i thought you were the monarch of the intumescing universe. the ones with mortal power always crash and burn and fall; but nothing on earth could ever topple you over. you were someone who could never fall, after all you stood on the ruins of the fallen ones. you knew what is was to fall into an infinite chasm of darkness and never come back again. i told you, you were something that blasphemous mortality could never be－you were a god. and then you finally, finally said that i was yours.
[after all the only way to your glacial heart was to use the shards of my broken heart as a knife to pierce into it and darling, no one in the universe had ever broken me like you did.]
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.