Stumbling by Nicole Barth [12/10/10]

I'm swinging on this pendulum of emotions

you've placed me on, clinging to all that I thought I could control.

I'm terrified, and you're nothing but a saint cloaked in my childish dreams.

My tendons are coiled springs, flinching at the next unexpected drop.

Your flawless smile stripped me of my focus;

you've set my sanity aflame.

Rubbed raw, you've scraped the secrecy off my skin.

How can I describe it?

I want your fingers running through my hair,

I want your ribcage rising against my embrace,

I want your musings in a jar of translucency.

I surrender to every word you whisper.