Fire Under Water

I learned your name in the silence
Where you disappear from my arms
You pull me close, then you tremble
Like staying hurts more than falling apart

I read your doubt in the spaces
Between every breath you keep
You want me only in moments
When the feeling doesn’t run too deep

We love like fire under water
Always burning, never warm
Every touch feels like a promise
Every promise cuts too far

We love like fire under water
All this pressure, no release
I would drown just to stay with you
You won’t sink far enough with me

You say you want me beside you
But your fear won’t let you stay
You reach for me in the moment
Then erase me when you’re afraid

I keep standing in the fallout
Of the words you never choose
I would break every rule I learned
If it meant I don’t lose you

We love like fire under water
Feel it flare, then feel it fade
I keep breathing through the damage
You keep calling it a phase

I don’t need you without fear
I don’t need you unafraid
I just need you in the wreckage
When the feeling won’t behave

We love like fire under water
Still alive, but starving air
I would burn through every ending
If you’d meet me halfway there

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