you're second nature

you're second nature

you make everything so easy

natural as breath in my lungs

you make everything simple

a straightforward line, point a to point b

you nimbly pick apart my tangled thoughts

uncomplicate the equation of me

you don’t pressure

don’t squeeze and yet

coax out the purest essence of my being

extracting the golden liquid

like nectar of freesia

our conversations bubble golden

spilling over, filling us with light

rivulets run iridescent, seep into my bones

melting the ice around my ribcage

dissolving the cage encasing my heart

the lines around me are blurred

distorted and disturbed

cracking in places, missing in some

weakened through the actions of repeated intruders

you simply wait by the boundaries

even though they’re fragmented and broken

you don’t rattle the gates

and so, they willingly open

when i see you i

immediately lose all pretense

the mask slips off my face

walls unguarded, no need for defense

our time is a gift

every moment in your presence

you make me understand why

the “now” is called the present

i feel drunk when i’m with you

the laughs uncontrolled, untamed like wildebeest

you prod and you poke

not to draw blood, but to draw

my lips curving into a beam

i complain and i banter

i’m stubborn, and i tease

i say you bring out the worst in me

and yet despite all

the version of myself when i’m with you

is the person i’d love to always be