Beautiful stranger

Dearest ,

Will you? Dig your fingers into my flesh until I bleed, then use my blood as ink to engrave your name into the craters on my face. Kiss my scars until you can taste the bitterness of healed skin hiding wounds that never did. Cradle my neck with your hands, and hold it gently enough to strangle the grief that clings to it. Look into my eyes so I can remember what I look like through the reflection in yours. Hold me like a child, and love me the way a father doesn't. Let's burn our house down and build another with nothing but windows and no doors, because no one will ever have to leave. And instead of saying I love you, let's keep telling each other that everything will be okay, until those words become a home we don't want to run away from.

Cal.