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His eyes were bright blue, nearly the color of the glaciers I saw hiking the other day. There was something wild and almost feral about him.
“No, you like authority and dominance. And you can be controlling without being an asshole.”
“Don’t worry sweetheart,” I said as I turned my back to her. “When I touch you, it’ll only be after you beg me to.”
“See—again, ‘wonderful lover’ just doesn’t do it for me. It doesn’t scream sex god.” “Oh and you’re such an expert?” “Women often use my name interchangeably with god, so yes,” he said dryly.
“You are incredibly contradictory, you know that?” “So I’ve been told.” “Someone has actually called you that before? I thought they only referred to you as a sex god.” I tried to hide a smile at that one. “I’ve been called a lot of names. Sex god is just my favorite.” “I’m sure asshole is a popular one.” “Yes, it is.” I said dryly.
She was a wildfire someone tried to contain in a fireplace—it just didn’t work.
It is in the breaking, we become whole again. It is through darkness, we find the stars. Somewhere between the soul and the self, we find what we’re made of.
“We only break once,” he said firmly. His hands running up my arms. “So we can put ourselves back together stronger than before.”
“You deserve to feel whole,” he said against my neck. “You are gorgeous when you come. But that is your gift to give me. Not mine to take.” He kissed me again.
Why do we compare the heart to love? It’s violent if you think about it A bloody piece of me, I give to you Or you rip it from me Then it bleeds, it breaks, it skips a beat I hold the pieces in my hands and watch the road to redemption run red.
Let’s not forget we only break once—everything that comes after just makes us stronger.”
Except now I don’t think we only break once. I think we break a thousand times, again and again, so our pieces can find the ones we fit together with and those pieces heal—refining and reshaping each time. Maybe we need to break in order to expand and maybe we need to shatter across the universe in order to find the pieces of others who fit in those spaces left behind.
