Escapism

Do not fall in love

With people like me.

People like me

will love you so hard

that you turn into stone

into a statue where people

come to marvel at how long

it must have taken to carve

that faraway look into your eyes.

 

Do not fall in love with people like me

We will take you to

museums and parks

and monuments

and kiss you in every beautiful

place so that you can

never go back to them

without tasting us

like blood in your mouth

Do not come any closer.

We will never learn

How to be soft.