When I love, I love like building armies
With tact, research, and skill
My love comes to you like a challenge
Breaking the armistice between us
Thirsting for conquest and demanding blood
My blood runs hot for lovers
Pulsing in my veins like cannon fire
Shooting upward and inwards
Catapulting its way into my heart
So you can hear me thumping my chest from the inside
When I love, I love wearing armor
Not because I fear the blows you make
But because I trust your words
will never hurt enough to need it.
I shield my body in chain mail
My ego with a broadsword
My legs in the knee pads I learned to
ride my bike in
Because above all I am defenseless
from letting you sweep me off my feet.
I love the way I love, because I could never love someone better than me.
Because no man is better than me.
Because love means opening up the battlefield and expecting a fair fight.
When I love I want you to knock me down
Scar my body
Show no mercy
Because love kills off every part of me that is weak
Only to make what survives stronger.
When I give myself to you
It comes with every opportunity
To invade my insecurities and tear down
the civilizations I have built to justify them
So I can see the fertile ground that always lay beneath.
We are both revolving planets.
Populated by people
That create to satisfy
the voids left behind
when everything we knew was destroyed.
Our history is told through the wars we wage
Because for once we are forced to think about each other
When we mend the holes left in
ourselves.
Love was never about the conquest.
It's about looking at the shattered remains of yourself and realizing
They were always there.
But now possessing the motivation
To do something
about them.
