Do Not Fall in Love With People Like Me

Do not fall in love with people like me. 
People like me will love you so hard that you turn into stone, into a statue where people come to marvel at how long it must have taken to carve that faraway look into your eyes.

Do not fall in love with people like me, we will take you to museums and parks
and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place so that you can never go back to them without tasting us like blood in your mouth.

Do not come any closer. People like me are bombs. When our time is up we will splatter loss all over your walls in angry colors that make you wish your doorway never learned our name.

Do not fall in love with people like me. With the lonely ones. We will forget our own names, if it means learning yours. We will make you think hurricanes are gentle that pain is a gift. You will get lost in the desperation, in the longing for something that is always reaching but never able to hold. 

Do not fall in love with people like me. We will destroy your apartment, we will throw apologies at you that shatter on the floor and cut your feet. We will never learn how to be soft, we will leave. We always do.


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