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My eyes convulse, moving,
Mouth dry,
Voice cracking,
Heart gripping,
Lungs failing.

What are you doing?
My skin shifts,
My mind spasms.

The warmth flows,
Marble-smooth carved beauty,
Shapes constantly shifting,
Angles and curves.

My pants tighten,
Mind flashing,
It's like lightning.
I'm blushing.

Is this love?

I take your hand,
And you take me into flight,
Sinking—it’s quicksand.

Suffocating,
Dying,
Clawing my way through,
Falling deeper,
Drowning,
Dying,
Lying,
Trying to escape,
Falling back in,
Dying.
I do not want to escape.

Is this love?
Is this a dream?
This is everything.
This is God and the Devil.
It's everything.
Is this life?

I'm dying
To live for you.

I love nothing more.
I'd die just to see you happy,
I'd die to remove one tear.
I'd die,
I'd die.

I love nothing else—
Not me,
Not family,
Not God.
Nothing more.

Do you hear?
Do not let go.
I'd die,
I love nothing more.

Is this love?
No.

My soul taken,
I think of nothing else.
I'm a sex slave,
I awake for it.
I love nothing more.

Is this lust?
I mean love—
All synonyms to me.
My heart beating,
Uh, uh, uh—
The only sounds I care about.
Dirty talk, the only time I listen.
Late night calls, the only time I answer.
We go out to bed—
The only dates I care for.

Is this love?
No, it's heaven.
It's euphoria—
The only thing I love.

It’s my dead soul,
It’s our long fights,
It’s me losing my temper,
It’s you losing...