I’ve got an affinity for a good heart
and yours is something noble
made of solid gold sarcasm and 3.6 percent milk
This budding is all blooming
in a way that makes nobody hesitate
It’s not dire, it’s sweet and it’s honest
It’s candlelight and sugar
It’s warm sunlight through my window
You come out of nowhere knowing what I am
Hand on the doorknob and you kiss me
before I can open it and run
No I couldn’t run if I wanted to
So I don’t and when you ask me to stay
I put on a t-shirt and I finally feel
like the girl I always wanted to be
The one who stays
I was never afraid of baring my chest
my heart always in full view
I was never afraid of a turned cheek
until I saw yours rosy and cold
I was never afraid until I realized I wanted you to see my heart
and I wanted you to love it
You’re far different from the boy who times his tea
– though I think he would’ve liked you
And you’re in stark contrast to the one who put the kettle on
because you don’t like tea at all
and you don’t even own a kettle
It’s polarizing like cold water in July
You are 5-hour energy when the clock strikes midnight
You are lack of sleep welcomed into bear-chasing arms
Your feelings didn’t just hang in the air
like things I thought I might recognize
No, you made them tangible like
elbow noodles at midnight
or a cell phone plugged in at 4
Now I whisper into the night
You were a twinkle in my sky
And if the man on the moon asks why the tears
I’ll tell him I just wanted to enjoy it
And I’m trying to forget
that by the time your star reached me
it’s light was already out