"Fall With Me"

"Fall With Me"

The city is on fire

so I'm headed your way.

Not much to talk about.

Very little to say.

I just want to open wide

when you do.

Do that thing that you do

on command

before my hands spread

and stretch the moments out.

Called you out

hoping you'd come with it

and with me

eventually.

 

Bring me to the summit

so that we can plummet

to our eventual splash.

That impending crash

the kind of harm inflicted

that I've grown all but addicted to.

It feels.......nice as self affliction

but so much better

as the love laced contradiction

that you angrily claw across my back.

The pain I've lacked in my tranquility

you'd offer to me in droves.

Bit my lips with each hungry kiss

and ripped fresh holes into these clothes

that I'll surely step, slip and trip over;

losing firm grip over

until we dip over this cliff

together.

 

Concerned less about being subtle,

I still daydream about the tumble.

I mumble things to myself

I'd rather commit to a whisper.

Thoughts past and present

prick the edges of my mind

like the insistent grazing whiskers

of one's favorite feline.

Each trip I've taken across this line

appears a story or two higher

and it gets harder to deny this desire

to lean to either side of it all.

 

This world is on fire

and I'd rather

take you for a ride

than look for somewhere to hide.

I want to find pleasure

in the loud, inaudible sounds.

If it all burns to the ground,

 

remind me of what it's like to drown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Devin Joseph Metz

8.30.20