Eyes open, another breath escapes, another morn.
Although alone, I know you've been here all along.
I breathe you in like a long drag off a cigarette.
I stubbornly refuse to exhale.

I love to feel you like chemicals inside,
Soaking through my skin,
to saturate my being,
Let it burn and burn, so I know that I'm alive in flight.

Persuade me to believe like I always have,
To tear myself open and let you see within,
The open book, sharing parts of me
where only emptiness displays for others.

Let the day subside, turning down the lights,
as you have turned down the sheets.
Stoking the flames of the inferno ignited in our longing.
As I close my eyes, I realize
It is you, and always has been,
Both my sickness, and it's only cure.