Archive: “if you give a girl a soulmate”

If you crack open your soul for me, I’ll go in with my own two hands. Pull out, with tweezers, every splinter from lovers' past. I’ll stitch it up sweetly and wrap it in gauze. Kiss it gently, treat it softly until the pain wears off. If shit hits the fan, I’ll spin around too. Let it twist knots in our stomach until our guts start to spew. If the lights go black and the tables turn, we’ll strike matches together until the world burns. Say the money dries up and the calls don’t come in, I’ll be there eating ramen in your crappy studio apartment. And if you start bleeding, I’ll bleed too. Anything, for the pleasure of spending my life with you.

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August 15th 2022