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"Closer"
I want to keep you safe.
I want to hold you close.
So close.
Closer than flesh,
Closer than souls.
I want to lay inside this moment
Forever, never leaving.
The real world is distant, lost.
This is all that matters now.
You and me,
Our demons held back safely,
By a simple wooden door.
I want to keep you safe.
I want to hold you close.
So close,
But this is a moment not sealed in glass,
Or frozen in time,
Or sealed in a bottle,
Or carved into marble,
Waiting out the centuries,
Unchanged, yet ever new.
My love burns people,
Changes them somehow,
Leaves them cold, empty,
Whether they leave or I.
I don't want that for you.
I want to keep you safe.
I want to hold you close.
So close,
But fire always burns,
And lions always kill,
And as preying mantises kill with love,
So do I-
Though my intents are far less sinister.
I only want to keep you safe.
I only want to hold you close.
So close.
Closer than flesh.
Closer than souls.
Closer than death.
By Christina Summers.