MKD (17)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Laying with you seemed like the strangest heaven
like running in strawberry fields under a golden sky,
but perfectly still, feeling alive.
When you touched me for the first time,
I was reminded of that night I was almost in a car crash.
Kissing you was diving off a cliff into a blue ocean, not knowing how to swim.
You holding my hand feels like melting into a liquid sunset
and when I listen to your heartbeat,
I can say with conviction that this world is a miracle.
I never knew love could be so simple,
as simple as you and I,
and quantum physics if you understood it,
simple as me without you would probably feel like the sun dying out into smoke.
I need you now, in the mornings
when my breath catches in my throat
and I don’t want to be alive anymore,
because you make me want to live some more,
because looking at you smile
makes me want to live a hundred lives
and at night,
you make me laugh when I want to cry
because you are my greatest strength
wrapped in bad jokes and galactic eyes.
Nolite timere, I say to myself when I go breathless at times,
feeling the way you make me feel,
happy and sad and so full.
I try not to be terrified,
only your voice can make it go away,
I wanted to tell you how much I love you
but this was the only way I knew how,
because words will stay even if you and I don’t ,
so hey—
I love you
—this way we will always exist
The writer is 18 years old and lives in India. This poem is inspired by someone very close to heart, and their love will always remain in her purest memory.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Laying with you seemed like the strangest heaven
like running in strawberry fields under a golden sky,
but perfectly still, feeling alive.
When you touched me for the first time,
I was reminded of that night I was almost in a car crash.
Kissing you was diving off a cliff into a blue ocean, not knowing how to swim.
You holding my hand feels like melting into a liquid sunset
and when I listen to your heartbeat,
I can say with conviction that this world is a miracle.
I never knew love could be so simple,
as simple as you and I,
and quantum physics if you understood it,
simple as me without you would probably feel like the sun dying out into smoke.
I need you now, in the mornings
when my breath catches in my throat
and I don’t want to be alive anymore,
because you make me want to live some more,
because looking at you smile
makes me want to live a hundred lives
and at night,
you make me laugh when I want to cry
because you are my greatest strength
wrapped in bad jokes and galactic eyes.
Nolite timere, I say to myself when I go breathless at times,
feeling the way you make me feel,
happy and sad and so full.
I try not to be terrified,
only your voice can make it go away,
I wanted to tell you how much I love you
but this was the only way I knew how,
because words will stay even if you and I don’t ,
so hey—
I love you
—this way we will always exist
The writer is 18 years old and lives in India. This poem is inspired by someone very close to heart, and their love will always remain in her purest memory.