You and I

Sometimes I gasp for breath
You know that feeling,
I can see myself in the emptiness of your eyes
You know how it feels to need
To need touch, heat, lifeforms
Breathing, pounding
Against the walls of your chest
To need flesh, rough and jagged
To need burning to feel alive
You and I, we feel everything
Magnified
We don't fall in love, we plummet
Face first, arms outstretched
Grasping at thin air
We don't walk into oblivion we
Run
Toes pressing off pavement like panthers
And we don't ache, we bleed
We burn until our supernovas
Are dissolved into blackness

Sometimes I forget
That we are the same
Sometimes I ache to feel human
Again
Sometimes air is crushing
And ghosts press cold and threatening
To paper skin
And life feels too big

But you are my oxygen when
Air is void of sustenance
You remind me of reality
When I get lost in me
You are a river when tears burn
I see life in your eyes when I have none