literature

i love you more

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i have never felt so overwhelmed: 
this is like the hammering of my heart and the sweating 
of my palms when i'm on a busy train, but in a good way.
you stop the panic.

you catch moths for me at midnight no matter
how irrational you think hiding under the cover is.
you pull me close when you're unconscious 
and squeeze me from inside your dream.

but i cannot help the burning ball at the back of my throat
every time you hold my hand or kiss me on 
the forehead or say the words first. 

i refuse to believe that the feeling that sets
my nerve endings on fire can be reciprocated
so strongly,
i refuse to acknowledge a love as big as this
can flow in two directions

and the vulnerability of your requital is what terrifies me most.
i have lost all sense of what poetry is. pls forgive me. I really wish that i still wrote stuff
© 2015 - 2024 anobrain
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haphazardmelody's avatar
You have not. This is wonderful.

I've been having a bit of writer's block, myself. It sucks. But let me tell you that this does not suck. I loved it. I'm adding it to my favorites so that I can read it again and again. Because, really, this poem describes exactly what love is to me. And that's what poetry is all about, yes? Creating something that reaches out and touches someone else. And that's what you did here. :heart: