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\b0 \cf0 I would have moved\ Heaven and earth for you.\
Stood on the precipice\ And let the universe swallow me whole.\
I would have crossed the seven seas\ And walked a thousand miles\
I would've fallen to my knees\ If I'd thought that it would keep you from
leaving my side.\ I needed you the moment I truly knew you.\
The moment I was able to look past the shallow image\
Of yourself that you choose to share with the world\
And see the fraying soul underneath,\ Beautiful as the ancient tapestry torn from
my castle walls.\ I can see the scared little boy constantly
aching\ From the scalding of a faulty mother's touch\
The tortured soul that knew no other way to cope with the pain this wretched world wrought--
though I would have been content to watch the dreary light illuminate your sleeping
skin\ I revel in the sanctity of skin on skin, the
tranquility of your touch\ And even though I know\
\ There's no such thing as a soul mate or a
perfect lover\ No reality such as the fabled "happily ever
after"\ I want to be the person you come home to.
The savory satisfaction of relief I alone provide.\
I need to be the one you confide in. I want you to trust me with the most sacred secrets
in the dustiest corners of your heart, because I will do no less for you.\
Your heart that I know resides within you, even if sometimes you don't hear its beatings\
I see through you. With my head on your chest I hear nothing but the rising and falling
of your ribcage and the tentative \i bum bum
\i0 of the tender creature that resides under your many layers of hard, heavy flesh\
And while we might have been too much far too soon\
I know the Fates dictated our destiny to end in each other's arms\
Don't you know this is the kind of love people search for their whole lives?\
\ I can't bear the idea that 40 years from now
I'll look back at this time in my life and view you as nothing more than the "one that
got away"\ When that day comes I still want to be feeling
like this with the comfort of your hand in mine\
Because even if sometimes things get hard whilst we battle our respective demons, I
am able to remember that you are the one constant source of goodness in my life\
I will not forever be content to stagnate in the sidelines\
When all along I should be your MVP\ You who I'm meant to have by my side,\
Against my will, my heart has tethered itself to you.\
No one gets under my skin without a fight\ But, lover, you just strolled on in.\
\ I lie by your side\
Ignoring your constant sighs\ Trials and tribulations\
You never offer any congratulations\ But I have been there since\
The day you needed me\ Who else would be?\
I took your hand and held you close\ Nursed you out of all your infernal funks\
Even if it meant I was constantly morose\ My devotion to you was on par with the holiest
monks\ \
But I'm in love with an ice cold man\ and his marble skin burns holes straight through
my lips\ I learn to forgive him the scars left carved
in my flesh,\ The raw new way my heart has of beating,\
And the stabbing thoughts left squirming in my mind like restless eels\
I lay out the roadmap to my soul\ Setting thumbtacks along the way to show\
Where my heart went missing\ I tear my old wounds wide\
And leave them gaping for his viewing pleasure\ And my miserable introspection\
But being equals is just a wish unfilled\ So I'm left sitting on my proverbial knees\
Swallowing hard and thinking\ 'Let me get what I want
\i please \i0 '\
\ Because I know you are not just the ghost
everyone else sees\ The shadowless man content in sharing so little
of himself,\ Giving to others only the parts of himself
that come like water to a drowning man.\ I see through you, transparent as my one desire
to know you\ I know of you what you can't hide from yourself.\
Like twins in our embryonic cocoon,\ We were designed as two halves of one near-perfect
whole\ \
You started the avalanche my life's become\ And no one's ever made me so *** crazy\
But baby, you've got me wrapped around you like cling wrap\
And I'm feeling like a fly trapped in molasses\ Your smoldering touch offers no release.\
\ I wanted to be the pleasant buzz in your mind\
After a long night fueled by coffee\ and the taste of my nicotine-stained lips\
I wanted to be the cold drink of water on a hot summer's day\
But somewhere along the way I became the\ Cut on the roof of your mouth\
You can't stop tonguing\ In spite of eternal irritation.\
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