THE POSITIVITY MINDSET

You taught me, how the walls I built so high around me, needed to be higher. You crept in without my knowledge, encompassing my every thought. Your touch making me forget everything, except your name. And in the wake of you leaving, my walls crumbled around me, shattering to a million pieces. and here I am rebuilding once again. I tried to save a lost boy, who thought he didn't need saving. And as a result, I lost myself. The aftermath of a beautiful catastrophe, is one person always ends up hurt more.

I have no idea what to call this, this thing that you do to me - this upside-down tremor of an almost-earthquake at the pit of my stomach. I don't know what to call it, because fear and happiness are both equally as earth-shattering in my body, and I don't know which category you belong to. Science made a mistake when it didn't mark your mouth as a point on the Richter Scale. And now, I am all tremble and chaos, holding my breath for you. All of the thousand mile aftershocks knocking words off my tongue. Us- just the two of us with summer wrapped around our throats No - you as the epicenter, you as ground zero. You, as tequila and regret on my tongue, the early hours of the morning where we are the least afraid to talk to each other. Me, self-conscious and wanton, erasing all the soft confessions I want to share with you, coveting the parts of myself, I do not know if I am ready to give to you, yet here we are. Me, laying out my secrets fo...