and despite my best efforts, you remain, stuck fast to the inside of my mind, but i don’t mind it, i don’t mind it

come with me and we can unfold the maps of each other, navigate the valleys of our bones, i’ll find the constellations god put in your eyes and sail by them, breathe by them. follow me, let’s find paradise together, plant flags in the sand, name islands after each other’s eyes, let’s sail the seven seas and sing shanties to the wind. come on, we’ll press our bodies together like tectonic plates, cause earthquakes, we’ll pack our lives into sandwich bags and go find where the sun meets the sea. i want the full moons of your eyes and the squeak of rusty bicycle chains and us, cradled by stars, i want to go skinny dipping and see paris and sleep on mattress on a floor, i want you, and the world, and a motel room. i’m ready. let’s go. come with me.