all at once, I fell
a star from that black sky,
a lamb to your white lies
you had me around your finger,

wound up like a wire
tightly

with arms outstretched, with hands grappling
and fighting
for a taste of that sweet, bitter love

it was a dream,
uncontrollable and blind,
hazy and sappy and suffocating
all things they warned us about

but we didn’t care
we saw pinks and purples
in those cotton candy skies
before the storm came
with those black and blue goodbyes

oh, how you got me

a misty kiss across my lips,
a breath whispering against my neck,
gently you spoke to me
but with that touch,
you freed me

and now, here we are

my heart from my open chest,
beating, thumping, yearning
for your fingers to graze my skin once again

for those eyes to look down upon me
for that mouth to tell me
that our dreams are dead

that they were all in my head
up in those cotton candy clouds
high and hazy

darling, oh darling you got me
you were my drug
my light, my dream

everything I wanted
you seemed to be,
but I learned from the best,
dreams aren’t all they are promised to be