you’re real and it terrifies me
I laugh and still your fingertips
give me goose bumps as my forehead
meets your shoulder and sighs

you love me and it’s terrifying
in my mind’s eye I see me
the way you see me
isn’t that earth shattering?

you’re a miracle worker
you would never make me cry
if you couldn’t fix ragged breaths
and surprise me all over again

we have more than memories
and it eases my terrific fear
flashes of every second flicker
when I bite my lips to think

I’m in love and yes, it terrifies me
petrifies me, caught in your gaze
deer in head lights, at least you let me know
you understand what I say with my eyes