
I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. He held me, held me close, and ever so delicately kissed me on the lips. It felt like someone stomping on my heart. The tears in my eyes just kept coming. Down my temples they burned as he kissed me in that dark cool room. Why is it always fear intermingled with love? Why couldn't I kiss him and believe that he wanted me, believe that I would be the only one to have him this way, well, at least the last anyway.
I let a sob slip. So much for fucking composure.
Even in the darkness I knew he was looking at me like I was from another planet. The last time I cried in front of someone their response was "I didn't even know you could cry."
What is it about a supportive embrace that makes the strongest of people break down and cry like lost children? I cried, and cried. And cried. Silent, ashamed of his understanding. And then, it wouldn't stop. I cried for hours, my face sore and hot. The room smelled of understanding and fresh laundry. Something that just seemed to comfortable to last. He just held me. Told me "maybe you just need a good cry."
I love you sweetness.What if, out there, there is a pill version of love. Would there be worse side affects then what they call "real love?" The palpitations, shortness of breath, blushing of the cheeks, dilation of pupils, those are all natural. Right?
Or maybe, do you think people can just run out of love for someone? Is it possible, not really get bored of someone, but just have nothing left to give? There is always something, be it kindness, or courtesy, tenderness or comfort, there are ways to give without loving right?
Maybe if I say it over and over again to you I can believe it again.Maybe I'm not the problem. Maybe Ive just heard it so many times from you that Its lost all meaning. Its the rumor everyone has already heard. The secret spilled into sunlight. The shooting star that no one saw.
Memories can be a bitch."Do you ever miss it?" she asked me.
It was like i couldn't breathe.
"I mean do you?" she asked again
"Well, *sigh* when you give your heart to someone, you always think its the only thing you've ever wanted to do." I feel the tears well up in my eyes.
"I'm sorry," she said, "maybe Santa will bring you a new one."
"Ok baby, lets hope you're right, maybe Santa will bring me a new one." Something about the optimism of a child can tear down the last bit of hope you have left while at the same time almost make you believe in Santa again. There was a hollow tragedy to the fact that it was only April.
I think God put pheromones on this planet just to punish me.
I didn't really miss the love. I said I did, but, I didn't. In a lot of ways I really didn't want him to love me, I missed the lust. The passion. The sweaty maddening passion that left you exhausted, bruised, sore, and satisfied. I missed his hands on me. Pulling at me, ripping my clothes, the squeezes, the slaps, everything that would or could make me blush.
All of the things I was willing to burn for. All of the things All of the things I couldn't tell anyone. All of the things that my body fiended for. The raw, rough, animal nature of it all, gone. Faded like a tattoo, still there in spots, not quite the same vibrancy or sharpness. I missed the bruises on my inner thighs and hips, the bite marks on my neck, the taste of blood when he kissed me hard.
The bare truth stood naked unashamed.

I wrapped my lips around the hard candy, exploring its surface with my tongue. The sticky sweetness on my lips, the glassy feel of the candy. The way it clacked against my teeth. I sat, staring out the window, from behind my dark glasses watching you.
Wondering how you would kiss me, would it be sweet, would it be hard and hot. Would you suck the candy from my lips? A hand upon my thigh, a hand wound in my hair, the sudden lust for submission. The savage claiming of my mouth.
I feel the all too familiar ache slither up my spine, heating my blood to a boil, your words dissolved into my skin, sugary sweet and numbing.
Is it a crime?