There’s not enough life in me to love you the way you deserve
I want infinities with you to shower you with all my affection
To hold you tenderly in my arms and kiss your head even though it’s laced with sweat
I want to wake up next to your warmth and feel you against my body for the rest of my life
To know that my love was at peace, in a dreamland right next to me, is a blissful thought
I’ve only just begun to learn the language your eyes speak
I want to tell you the stories they sing to me, longingly wishing the space between us to vanish
For our skin to meet
Graze and glide
Against one another’s
There are not enough seconds in minutes
Hours in days for me to learn the way you feel
It’s a tragedy in my heart that nobody else will ever love you as I do
I just can’t share you
I’m selfish
But only with you
Every breath of yours, I want to preserve
Every touch, I wish to capture
Forever in memory
To last eons
There’s 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
While I spend my life devoted to learning you
In every which way and loving you
Like you deserve
Priya Butter is an undergraduate writer looking to be published.
