Steps For Falling in Love Words by HALLE PRENETA I. I feel like I could watch you move around a room
By Rachel McLean
IV. I want to love you. I want to love you unconditionally. I want you to kill me and then resurrect me. Raise me up from the dead. Raise me up like you always do when I’m sad or depressed or scared or anxious.
for hours. Nothing but you dancing throughout the space, legs jumping, arms flowing,
V. I want you to keep being you. I never want you to
head bobbing to the rhythms of your feet.
change. I want to keep taking you in, absorbing you until you live in my head and every
II. I love how I can always feel the energy in your
time I close my eyes, you’re there. You’re
words. Each letter breathes life into every
there to comfort me. You’re there to make me laugh.
word you send. Your sentences plant seeds that
You’re there, by my side, ready to take on
grow beautiful flowers. Your paragraphs start
the world with me.
whole civilizations. I’ll suffocate without your words absorbing new life into me.
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III. I want to take you all in. Your flowing hair and
Halle (she/her) enjoys writing short romance, sci-fi,
emblazoned skin that suddenly glows when
and horror stories along with poetry and gets her
you’re outside. I want to experience you cranked up
ideas from random life experiences and fanfiction.
to eleven. Your witty jokes, your words that
When she’s not writing, she’s either watching
can breathe life into everything dead, your sparkling
YouTube or playing Animal Crossing. Her Twitter
smile with teeth so white they’re blinding.
handle is @YaTheatreNerd