I am starless, spotless, as I lie out beneath this tattered universe ceiling thinking only of you… I hear your heartbeat beside me, how it rattles against my cage in the deepest dark of night to soothe me like a clock, where only dreams exist to escape, to wake to the sun and your beautiful blue-eyed face, your beautiful yawn at dawn, the place where the newest day greets me with everything you are, countless, too much to count, how love life lives with every sweet breath you take, with every single motion you make, with every tired whisper that aches out of your soul at morning’s break; you are endless beauty written on the walls, a gift with no ending, a memory worth waiting for.

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Aaron Echoes August