Thereβs not enough life in me to love you the way you deserve
I want infinities with you to shower you with all my affectionβ¨
To hold you tenderly in my arms and kiss your head even though itβs laced with sweatΒ
I want to wake up next to your warmth and feel you against my body for the rest of my life β¨
To know that my love was at peace, in a dreamland right next to me, is a blissful thoughtΒ
Iβve only just begun to learn the language your eyes speakβ¨
I want to tell you the stories they sing to me, longingly wishing the space between us to vanish
For our skin to meet β¨
Graze and glide β¨
Against one anotherβsΒ
There are not enough seconds in minutes β¨
Hours in days for me to learn the way you feel
Itβs a tragedy in my heart that nobody else will ever love you as I do β¨
I just canβt share youβ¨
Iβm selfishβ¨
But only with you
Every breath of yours, I want to preserveΒ
Every touch, I wish to captureΒ
Forever in memoryβ¨
To last eonsΒ
Thereβs not enough life in me to share with you
And that is simply that
Such a shame this world will only know you in brief and simple ways β¨
While I spend my life devoted to learning youβ¨
In every which way and loving you β¨
Like you deserve
Priya Butter is an undergraduate writer looking to be published.