breathing besides you, the laughter in your eyes glinting ever brighter. i should like to clench my fingers on the feeling, seize it with my soul and you with my teeth, and hide both in a place of myself i cannot feel. if i were to know it's special hiding spot i would bruise it with much prodding. have you noticed how uneasily my gaze unravels from you? you are bright and frightening and unbeautiful — though you are mesmerizing, my tender rosebud soft-lined creature, you are too lithe and vanish too quickly, and your transience fills me with awful desperation. but i love your laughter even as it dissolves
