this is how you know i want you.

by AVA.

do not speak to me in the language we both know. i want to feel your native tongue and where it came from. i want to know where you begin.

i do not care if you tear me apart. that is the only way i know how to let you in.

you tell me i am enough. i have always been enough. i have always been more.

i have no desire to own you, to claim you. i love you just as you are. free. your own. i just want to be near you. to love you. to be with you, as much as you will allow.

i start missing you the second before you leave. i think whatever this is is enough to undo me.

i hate how mortal we are. i hate how we're going to rot and decay and return to the earth as these tragic and fragile things. i hate that nothing lasts forever, and i hate that this is what gives everything meaning.