at this point,

you could kill me if you wanted to.
you could sublimate me, conjugate me like a verb.
you could tear me apart,
consume my flesh, lap up my blood.
you could steep me like tea
and i would love you.

i love you
and that is the beginning and that is the end.

dear you,

I put your love
On the tip of my tongue,
Masticate
and swallow.

you choke me,
like you always do -
but this time,
from the inside.

dear you,

I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.

It was not this.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

- Anne Carson

dear you,

if we were powhatan, I would say this:

yoowah tooskean tsepaih yapam
vtacqwowsun naantucah
tsepaantamen
quantamun
crenepo mucosjit. 

from the iliad

if i were but helen, and you paris of troy,
you would've swept me from the lovely hills of lacedaemon.
sailed me off and away in the racing deep-sea ships
and we would be locked in love on rocky island.

and if i were helen of sparta and you the prince of troy,
we would never have left the sun-specked, dreamy piece of floating land,
and set sail for tumultuous troy, protected by her ancient walls
and lord apollo, archer of the sky.

but we did.
and there was nothing to how i hunger for you now -
irresistible longing lays me low.

but if you could, 
touch me,
and i will burn. 

that sounds about right

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

- Chuck Palahniuk

dear you,

5 days 14 hours and 43 minutes
is how long we've been apart.

and already i crave your insistent mouth,
pressing itself against my gasping soul.

i miss you.
and that translates as this:
i am plunging into the familiar abyss
with enough force
to shatter every single bone
in my body.