Tangled

When we first locked eyes
You blew me away
With the bits of breath
You had already drawn
From my lungs
Frozen stiff
Unmoving yet rattled
An image so perfect
A camera couldn't capture it

We we first spoke
It was of Steinback
And all that is east of Eden
A place where we belonged
But when I learned of your lover
I was broken
Shattered
Picked up and put back together
To one day belong to another

I only ask
That you keep my breath
You have taken from me
And remember the way it tastes
In hopes that one day it will flow
Within your veins