Today I Lived

silverwords:

i tried so hard to resist you - to look past the icebergs in your eyes and to write over the words you set in the palms of my hands - but you’re still here and my hands are behind your ears, leaving fingerprints on your neck and galaxies of barely-felt touches tracing your jawbone. my lips have kissed yours beneath branches in the dark. i’ve pulled the strings of your hoodie, leading your lips to mine and i have kissed them, pulling you closer while leaving traces of my scent on every inch of your face. my lips have kissed you while standing in a black and white parking lot with stars pulling our every thoughts apart from my brain to yours and from yours to mine, because they were never really supposed to be kept inside our own skulls. i have danced slowly with you on the top of a hill with the lights of the city below urging us to be closer, closer, closer until we were close enough to read the secret messages hidden in the lines of our foreheads. i have rested on your chest, memorized the thump of your heart and how it feels to hear the very organ keeping you alive beating against mine with your hands running circles in my hair and my lips crashing into yours with playful whispers. i breathed in and out and my lungs snatched every inch of air floating above our heads inside that car, but it wasn’t enough because you took every last breath from me. i couldn’t breathe and our lips were inches apart yet your lips caught mine softly, like the way you caught my heart when i didn’t realize anyone could even see it falling. i’ll save the nights for you. i’ll save the smiles felt on your lips that you can only feel the outlines of, the sound of rain falling on the roof above us, and my quick breaths and cold fingers all for you.

(Source: feliciaa-nicole)