Love Poem: Scrambled
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Written by: Alexandra Perry

Scrambled

I remember you kissed me inside and out
Against he confines of a foreign couch
Drag your finger along my jaw line here
I love you so much. I feel like i'm going to get sick
I look around and see through a haze of lights 
The windows of your car are fogged and lusty 
Your lips are so soft and sweet and harsh

Lacrosse and football that’s all you talked
I ache! I ache! Lets loose ourselves
We snuck traces of each others skin
While spinning stories about the 49’ers
A campfire around me, I smell smoke.
Baby you wont, burn, oh baby.

You worked at a prison 
Dirty little waterfowl, hear that gun pop 
Watch the sky turn red
Lingering in the store front openings, smiling in boots
A dimple to close to your illegal mouth
I’m so Cold, I’m so cold

Little tokens, food and gifts
Your skin, your eyes like sweat and dirt
Near you I smell blood and exhaust 
I never wanted to tell you I loved you for someone else
Pitter-patter scrapping huff 
Touch my lips and tell no one
Hear that pretty baby purr

My best friend liked you so it never happened
I think you had grayish hazel eyes
I thank you for punching the love of my life in the face

Goodnight beautiful, goodnight, goodnight
Watch the sky bloom and burn with lights
Acrid fuming burning smoke
In a bed, in an RV, please don’t make me go in the water 
Don’t yell at me! Don’t you sit there and yell at me!
Goodnight Handsome, goodnight, goodnight

I like the way you turn red
Like a sun kissed glory, like a broken bleeding mouth candy
Keep running, keep running, tell we outrun temporary.
Lets fool around in this Christian school

Lets be honest I don’t love you
I never will
You’re a smart boy, wheat colored hair
Glide across that water, I smell smoke and I am burning
You brush my lips and ask what’s wrong.
I cry I cry
I don’t love you

Hollow, hollow empty soul
I call you crying my love eternal
The phone rings, it rings twice
You pick up and you’re all alone
“ I can’t talk because I love you.”
All alone, broken scrambled.
Call me back…
Heaven doesnt let you call collect