Does he love me like I love him?

Alliteration storms about testing my tongue tightly in the morning strangling for my breath to caress my lips and stretch across to reach you I want to hold you, I want to breathe all of you 

Into me when I wake up next to you 

Outward I extend my hand 
The air around us zaps my mouth shut 
My heart skips and twirls and beats and leaps
Farther than its ever before 
 
Crashing and gasping and rationalizing I am, 
To get to your inner depths full of feeling
I want to know if you feel like me 
Feeling feels that fail to reveal how we're feeling
 
Dancing around the truth is where I am 
Stage after stage, hidden layer after layer 
Digging deep into a drugged state 
Where I no longer remember my name 
 
I'm not the one that you needed before 
But I'm the one you need now 
Dressed in red I find you 
Tearing your soul apart and restitching with mine
 
Now we can be happy 
Now is when it's ok to stop breathing 
An intake of dirty words stuttered here and there
that can be evaded without so much as a stare
 
We only have time for you and me 
Our cheeks sweep together and greet
Finding its familiar hold, in between me 
I snatch you up because you belong only to me
 
My heart longs for you 
It's shrinking and shrinking without you
To nourish it and swell under your touch 
Without you I feel so alone 
 
Sober and afraid 
I need your fulfillment
Sinking into me I grow 
My heart breaking off of my sleeve and touching my toes
 
I yawn and sleepily pull myself to you 
when I'm asleep i crave you the most 
Nestled up by your chest 
Is the place where my love is constantly put to the test 
 
This poem is about: 
Me

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