I’m sitting here scratching a bug bite
Wishing the AC was a little less cold
And I want to run to the edge of the earth and feel how much my legs hurt, how much breath it takes and then jump off
so my legs sway below me like noodles
And all the air in the universe pushes
against me, inside of me, all at once
My shirt feels too close to my neck
And I want to climb a ladder to the sun, so close that its heat makes me forget I have a body and then fall off through the sky into cold, clear water and go down, down, down until I feel shivers between my toes
He bites my lip when we kiss
And I want to bury my feet in quicksand and hold onto the branch of a tree that keeps growing and growing until I’m all stretched out and my feet are pulled free and I spin around and around the branch like a pinwheel
And I want to say something because it
feels so good and I know I can feel more but I don’t
Because how do you tell someone that you want your legs to fall off and your face to burn and your arms to stretch into oblivion
Just so you can feel like two souls floating alone somewhere
Completely and utterly free