Around Me

you are the taste of strawberry, pink and sweet, with the freshness and vitality of newly-
plucked fruit.
you are the soft sway of the waves, undulating black satin in front mine eyes.
you are the amalgam of every beautiful thing in this world,
that I knew
sought
and have forsaken

everywhere I turn I see your essence,
magnified by the fact of your existence

Out of reach
In too deep

And when I crashed with my drunken feast
(-oh beast that rode my fragile bod-)
And looked up
(-oh god oh god-)
I was safe in the knowledge
(-that you...-)
Were the reason for it all.