BLACK PARADISE

Love makes you feel out of control. I think that’s how you know it’s right.

Oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.

When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.

I was yours before I knew, and you have always been mine too.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.