one, the same salt that fills the ocean runs through your veins, two, the freckles on your back remind me of constellations when i trace them with my fingers, three, you are full of sunlight and it shines from every crack in your skin, four, the pace of my arrhythmic heart quickens and jumps when you’re near, five, you swallow planets like they’re marbles, six, i am alive i am alive i am alive, seven, every day without you feels like open heart surgery with no anaesthetic, eight, you taste like gunpowder and gasoline, nine, galaxies are birthed in the spaces between your ribs, ten, we’re a hopeless tangle of skin and fragile hearts, eleven, the gods never stood a chance against the two of us, twelve, i don’t give a damn about love, thirteen, each scar on my body is a place you once touched.