If You Cherish Me, I Will Wake Up Every Morning And Consciously Choose You. Ill Hold Your Heart As Dearly

if you cherish me, i will wake up every morning and consciously choose you. i’ll hold your heart as dearly as my own. i’ll protect it better than i could ever protect mine. i’ll love the parts of you that you struggle to. i promise you’ll never have to feel alone again.

blue hunnit eyes got me falling in love

i’m scared of the songs that remind me of you and the memories they elicit

and blessings on blessings

they whisper daily

till gloom lifts to shine

till his lips meet mine

memories of you and this place

slowly overwritten by new stories

and old ones reshaping

less like fireworks this time

more like beachside bonfires

or sitting on the lifeguard tower

watching the warm waves

wash away your name in the sand

the army anti-love poem

my drill sergeants made fun of me

for having terrible aim

500 freedom seeds

23 targets shot

477 hit cupid in the butt

or maybe it was when i threw that grenade

three feet from cupid’s face

that angered him so much

he took my love away

one arrow shot through my heart

and ripped it clean apart