Green Hearts

We bloom like new life.

I held on without hesitation
as you cracked these ribs
and watched my green blood bloom like new life,
dripping with danger inside every single chamber
as you stripped me bare and built me up
until I was wearing wings woven from your words.
and I’m thirsty,
so thirsty,
because I’m emptying myself of everything I ever was,
trying to condense your sunshine into a fluorescent screen
and I just blaze like wildfire as I paraphrase every beat of my heart
until I’m sinking in semantics
and mixing up metaphors.
because you’re a burning beacon
shaping my shadows into a darkness I can digest
and I’m so tangled with time,
wasting away the hours so that I can spend forever with you.
It doesn’t make sense
I know I never do,
but the miles just don’t matter when you feel so close
that I can reach you with poignant pauses and nameless nouns
and you just spin space around me like we are infinite
until I’m pearlescent with every possibility
and I’m shivering and shaking,
quivering and quaking
as I stomp on the stigma and defy the doctrine
that’s divided the difference between logic and love my entire life.
I’d walk the world for you
until time crumbles upon itself in a slow motion free-fall
and we’re left dancing in the sky.
because you,
you’re all of me,
madness and magic and poetically tragic,
dancing with demons and reviving every reason.
because you,
you’re everything I ever was and everything I want to be
my home, my heart, the only silence I’ll ever need.