Popular Poems About Dating

Mmmmm  
Ahhh  
Misty-colored memories  
Rise to the surface  
Sexy saxophone offerings  
You’re haunting  
My mind again  
Mmmm  
Mmmm  
Boardwalk cafe  
Fingertips talk  
Lips brush softly  
Voices soft  
Promises made  
Dreams take flight  
Sacred bonds  
Two hearts unite  
Mmmm  
Mmmm  
Waves roll in  
Salt scents the air  
She quietly sighs  
As he caresses her hair  
Windswept platform  
Hollow sounds  
Scattered leaves  
Memories...

All anyone wants to do
is split me,
thumbs in middle to part
through skin tender
as a mandarin’s,
peel me back
to see my center,
drink from both halves,
leave the fruit exposed
to rot and then ask me
if I really expected
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I can fall in love with anyone if you give me 3 days and a common thread. And I think that's my problem. I don't want or like cautiously climbing for the sake of saving face or being rational. I want to love them, and I want to do so now. This most recent boy? In 3 days, I imagined waking in his arms to snow outside my bedroom window. And he said he wanted casual. What the fuck is casual? I only know seeing someone and showing them a portrait of my perspective. That's how I love people. I want to show them magic and now I am terrified to be that. I have to DM someone and ask them "how...