Temptation

There was something hidden in their eyes, something I would never be able to uncover. I had come to this conclusion, even if it did impale me. I had learned to accept it.

How could I not, when I knew that if I didn’t learn to live with such thoughts I would never be as close as I was now? Granted, I would always realize this was not as close as I would prefer, but I would also always remember that this was far better that most everything else. Distance was carbon monoxide in my lungs.

Dark eye lashes broke from their stair into the distance and interlocked with my own of pale color. I decided once still to over look the longing I could not satisfy that swam behind his irises, and knotted my fingers into the dark hair around his ears, feeling the familiar touch of cold metal on my skin from his many piercings. The air boiled between us. These seconds before were an agony even a virgin could feel.

Our lips pressed together, bursting with passion that made my pulse rise to extreme heights. It was something I had never experienced before and yet something that felt more natural that breathing. Part of me knew I was only in purgatory, and yet I still could not release the notion that this was heaven on earth.

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I was to learn how to control myself around these people
Only because you have
burned me so
I have no feeling left
how is it that you have forsaken me
of this love
I am alone
keep me breathing

teach me how to live on Earth again