when you touch my skin comes so awake that i

shudder

shiver

shake

and that scares me sometimes because

i know

that can’t be healthy, not really, not really healthy, not to care so much, not to feel like there’s

lightning

lightning

lightning

flickering through my veins, nervous system sizzling, short circuit in my soul, every time you smile

i mean

it’s just lips

and teeth

and a tongue

and that shouldn’t be enough to seize my heart, to make it go

shudder

stutter

stop

and when they find me dead of heart failure then i’d just like to say it’ll be

all

your

fault

only that’s okay because

i know

you didn’t mean it and my silly heart should

just

shut

up

and get over itself