Stay With Me

I awoke the next morning with millions of skin cells

Your skin cells

The smell that lingered in my sheets and in my hair was

Your scent

I can't recall now if it was the gaze that leveled me 

or the feeling of your hands on my face

Can't remember a time when it was easy to 

filter you out
"Stay with me", you say
Your voice soft and sincere
Blue eyes wide and devoid of deceit
You don't even know all the ways to break me yet

Easy with affections

and stringent with emotions usually saves me

So why does it feel like I'm drowning