trust me this time.

tall, strong, your chains of trust and mystery locking the distance between you and me. you look away most of the time, but in those transient moments of your deep brown eyes into mine, I know it’s these inscrutable eyes I fell for. these inscrutable eyes I’d do anything for.

but I don’t say it aloud. I play it with you awhile with the mountain ranges of my smile. I listen to you, intently, all your climbs. there is one thing I cannot deny— a lonesomeness you can’t satisfy but with my scared memory. 

you’re a mastermind, just like me. it didn’t get to me when I saw all the little ways you’re cascading to capture my heart. I come slowly, my gaze down to my feet. will you fiercely be my one and only?

my love is an ocean. perhaps I’d forgotten about how unsubtle it is. soft-spoken at first, daintily delicate, wordless— but then a tidal wave with the winds of new beginnings. one step into my heart, my beloved, you’d forget everything. all the pettiness of your yearnings melts into the worlds colliding at my gates. i like that it’s not so easy to get you there.

why me? I ask you, untying the cords of your heart. you laugh a little, exasperated. it’s been on your mind: why her, after all this time? you look down and then up to the skies. 

I don’t know, you sigh. I know. all these years I kept you on the sidelines, often brutally pushing you away. you still stayed. and love, that’s an embrace. to be here even when I break your heart. because I know I will. 

menacing all that you are till you’re crushed, till the softness in you emerges ‘neath the thorns and pincers. you cannot be but at the mercy of love when you’re with me.

trust me this time, my heart speaks. I hope it’s the lyric you hear.