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If I could, I'd rip myself open down the middle

And wrap you up in my ribcage, cradle you between my organs

Should the universe let me, I would skin myself

So my skin can surround you, absorbing you into me

As we lay together I'll bite you on your arm

And wonder what it'll be like to simply gnaw it off

I want to consume you

Want to shred your flesh and eat you

Need to pick up all your pieces and make them part of me

I love you so much it drives me crazy

Sometimes I dream I stretch out into an impossible shape

I consume you then, wrap myself around you until you're gone

Nothing happens to you then

It's just the two of us

A pile of flesh that becomes one

And no one can touch you

It'll be grotesque and it wouldn't matter at all

You've always loved me, even in my strangeness

So I can stretch until it's gross and wrap myself around you

Push myself into every little crevasse there is

And the two of us will be one

There is comfort, support and safety

There is laughter, dumb jokes and all the bits

There is passionate discussions, rants and all the voice notes

But above all, there is you, me and the rest of our lives

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Sometimes it feels like a lifetime

Sometimes it feels like a flash

Sometimes it feels timeless

I cannot imagine life without you

And my life before you is colored by your absence

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Our lives are like a continuous work in progress

Every year a new chapter as the story unfolds

Each day that passes a new line that gets added

I hope our story stays unfinished

That this chapter with you will never close

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I lay in your arms, sheltered in your presence

The hard world kept outside your door

And I know there is love, care and happiness

Atlas I know you can't lay your burdens down

But Atlas let me help you hold it

I know it is heavy

I know it is hard

But I can see there is room for my hands alongside yours

Room where I can help ease your world

It might not be much

And it might not be easy to let go

Still, Atlas let me be there when it gets heavy

Bite, bite, bite

Nom, nom, nom

I'll tear you open

And crawl inside

Love you so much

I consume you

Rest my head

Against your heart

Just let me rip

The skin to get there

Nom, nom, nom

The noise and people draining me

I forget how to emote

Then I see you at the stop

And suddenly I remember

Fingers trailing down my back

Etching care into my skin

Hands slithering further down

Cradling me with comfort

Head against your chest

Fuzzying my brain warm, soft

Limbs easily malleable

Knowing they are safe with you

I don't think there is another place

Where I'd feel better than there

Enveloped in you entirely

Your half of the bed