• i'll keep you warm if you let me.

    there's just so much we never accomplished,
    but i've realized that i've been slipping through
    loopholes lately, but loopholes are black holes,
    and my heart has been crushed down to a singularity.

    and a singularity isn't something that can provide much in the way
    of bloodflow,
    and i think if i'm going to be with you, i need to be human.

    validation never came easy, looking for new leases on life,
    strife and struggle encouraged one to just steal life instead.
    and isacac brock told me "the universe is shaped exactly
    like the earth, if you go straight along enough you'll
    end up where you were."

    and it seems like that's so invariably ******** true
    that i don't even know where to start.
    i was dorian gray before i knew lord henry,
    i was an oscar wilde character
    before i could read.

    i need to pick a line that isn't straight, and it shouldn't be that
    hard, but the straight line has been so easy.

    but life has curves, and loops and loopholes
    and black holes and whirls and worlds and wingspans
    and apples and answers but even more questions.

    who made me like this?
    why is it so hard to leave my hole?

    have i already buried myself?

    and you used to laugh and say "don't you dare!"
    but there's so many possible inflections to that, that it makes me wonder if
    it was my mother shouting "don't you dare come home past twelve!"
    or my little sister shouting amid laughter "don't you dare tickle me! stop it!"
    or if it was your favorite "don't you dare let go!"

    because i let go a few times, and you grabbed me again,
    but i've never seen an oak tree reach down and reattach an acorn.

    maybe it's because the acorns fall through black holes and
    just stick back on the branch as if gravity didn't exist
    in the first place.

    and maybe you're the tree and i'm an acorn, and their really is
    a black hole between the me and the ground.

    i'll still swear to god that
    even though i know it's a black hole,
    you're the one saving me every time.