Be My Blanket

Stay with me and shelter me in warmth with your words. You are broken, you crave the rest, you need what I can give, but I feel sick and alone and suffocated tonight. Please. Put your arms around me and tell me I'm yours without question. Fill my head with dizzy daydreams of music and brilliance. Show me that other world, that beautiful, incomparable palace in your mind and let me wander it's halls and caress it's cobwebs. I want to walk the labyrinth of your axons and clip your neurons to my shoulders like wings. Stay with me.

You've taken the heart I left on the doorstep in your mouth like a forlorn puppy before curling up on the cushions and shutting your weary eyes to the world. I still kneel here outside, flickering with red melancholy dripping from my eye sockets and down the nodules in my spine. I'm in the shadows and not the spotlight of your world right now. I am not important compared to your struggles. Yet I beg you to let me breathe you like oxygen and die on the last note from your lips. I am a shallow child in the way I crawl towards your comfort as I draw a shaking wrist across my tired eyelids. I will sing for you, I will write for you, I will live for you because you're my life boat in the same way I can't let go of my pen no matter how much my fingers ache.

You have become my everything even though I am not yet yours. It's cold here without you. Rest a peaceful sleep, my beautiful love.