you pull me by the collar of my shirt and i fight hard not to pin you down, fight hard not to make you feel everything i am feeling at that exact moment. in the seconds that we pause i can imagine the smile you might have crawling slowly across your cheeks, taking no prisoners in it's warmth, and catching it out of the corner of my eye is like a bright flash of sunlight after a dark night. i'm blinded, heart pounding, frozen in that second in time.


if this is what they describe in those romance books, they do a really horrible job at it. words always fail when it comes to you - the ethereal deserves so much more. three words would never be enough to describe this phenomenon, nor would one thousand.