I wish for you to hold me close and brace me from the cold
open your loving arms to receive all of me
don’t flinch darling as I tighten my frantic hold
I promise this will only hurt you briefly
Bare your perfect self to me, peel open your chest
make space, let me crawl in next to your beating heart
“Seal me in!” I demand, overwhelmingly compressed
but desperate to never, ever be apart
I will settle into your bones, uncomfortable in your flawless skin
Parasitic and leeching, but always inside and with you
buried so that nothing can do me harm this deep within
so deep that prying me out will be the end of you, too