Little experiments

I noticed you start shaking

When I stare for too long

Like your body understands me

Before your mind catches on

You pretend you don’t enjoy it

The way I pull you apart

Slowly learning every weakness

Like tracing veins inside your heart

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You speak softer around me now

Like loud sounds might make me leave

And I love the way your personality

Changes when you need me

I can hear your thoughts go quiet

Every time I touch your skin

Like your whole nervous system

Is letting me inside again

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Stay… stay… stay with me

Even when it hurts to breathe

Slow… slow… pull me in

Till I don’t know where you end

Say my name

Say my name again

Over and over

Until it lives inside your head

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You started using my expressions

Now your laughter sounds like mine

And every piece of your reflection

Feels slightly redesigned

I wonder if you realize

How easy you became to read

How your loneliness keeps opening

Every locked part underneath

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Closer… closer…

I can feel you changing

Closer… closer…

I can hear you breaking

You look prettier exhausted

You look honest when you ache

There’s something almost holy

About the way you bend

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Stay… stay… stay with me

Even when you can’t sleep

Slow… slow… sink beneath

Every part of me you keep

Say my name

Say it till it aches

Over and over

Till your voice starts sounding like mine

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Stay with me…

Stay with me…

Stay.