* I love you Dylan*

..hold me..
squeeze me tight against myself
push my ribcage together
so I can feel my heart pumping inside me
like a huge time bomb waiting to finally explode into a
million 'I love you's

like helium balloons being held under a huge net waiting to burst out once the rope is cut
(isn't that how i would be.. once they cut my marionette strings away?)
once i'm free from everything
i can fly. like the butterfly i am not
and pretend to be something i was

for now, i need you to hold me
really close
tight against your chest
lock your arms around me
so i can't escape
keep me in the cage of your arms and your heart

because i love you


and because i need you

cling to me as a water droplet
to the petal of a flower
rest, settle yourself in my curves
and when the sun steals you from me
(i know we can't cling forever)
the choice was always yours
fall upon any flower in the field
and yet you return
falling for me
every day
desperately
longing for me

or fall to the soil
let me take you inside me
we can never be close enough

flow through my veins
and fill my heart
just as you always have before,
leaving no more spaces
my heart holds only room for you

make me yours
in every way
but you won't need my strings
this marionette
will be yours willingly

this marionette loves you


the love of a marionette
is the strongest in the world
a heart of wood
mine has your name
carved on it

unerasable

don't worry
not even the sun
can take you away from me
i will cling forever
(if that's okay with you)
i need not control you
i don't need your strings
i only need the love
another marionette can give

i will hold on
forever


Together
our strings will cross,
entangle as our hearts.

And our 'masters'
will hold no more power over us,
attempts to control, useless.

Love is freedom.

We will belong
to only each other
held only
by hands and heart.






For this is how a Marionette loves,


No string can ever
pull me from you.

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