For something so desperate
as to feel my hair, intertwined
with your hand; soft-speaking-
how can I consider myself
the death star?

For plain and simple need
of a wedge beneath the doors
we had opened to each other;
a kiss; a hand, held
on crisp occasions provided
under cover of autumn leaves;
to know that you would be
here, to touch my hand
when it needed assurances
to run through my hair
in times of great hair holding
neccesities.

To protect you- yes, to save you
from the scourge of the earth;
boys who walk without souls
like vampires wanting pieces
of your neck; whereas I
merely wanted to sleep;
corrupted, for certain want
of physical comfort
in purest forms. A body
to breathe through
at night, in chill, seeking
warmth through you
as I had always found it
before we ever touched;
warmth through you
in winter.

I won't feign innocence;
but I was not so corrupted
as in my inability to speak
proper words for these things;
to have to grow through this
as if you were a coursebook
and I am a failing student
in a class entitled
"the meaning of your life."

I am not a malevolent destroyer
of worlds; but I agree, I went
from a soul, to a boy
who could not find my way
through what you presented;
not believing in a perfection
beyond love, beyond us-
and so stumbled through,
blind and lashing out
to reach for anything
I could firmly claim
as ground, and when
color returned
to my black and white world
I saw what gardens
we had walked through
and I had trampled on;
but I swear to you
I am no death star,
no, I was here
to save you
from the likes of me;
with the purest intentions
of some comically flawed ego:

You deserved the best
and it would have to be me;
even if it meant my worst
to get us there.

-e.







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