for women who are difficult to love (because, its not an easy place to be, being "difficult" to love)

 you are a horse running alone

 and he tries to tame you

 compares you to an impossible highway

 to a burning house

 says you are blinding him

 that he could never leave you

 forget you

 want anything but you

 you dizzy him, you are unbearable

 every woman before or after you

 is doused in your name

 you fill his mouth

 his teeth ache with memory of taste

 his body just a long shadow seeking yours

 but you are always too intense

 frightening in the way you want him

 unashamed and sacrificial

 he tells you that no man can live up to the one who

 lives in your head

 and you tried to change didn’t you?

 closed your mouth more

 tried to be softer

 prettier

 less volatile, less awake

 but even when sleeping you could feel

 him traveling away from you in his dreams

 so what did you want to do love

 split his head open?

 you can’t make homes out of human beings

 someone should have already told you that

 and if he wants to leave

 then let him leave

 you are terrifying

 and strange and beautiful

 something not everyone knows how to love.


words : @warsan_shire
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