There is darkness in me,
in all of us,
if Kingdom Hearts has taught me anything.
Like a corked, cracking bottle containing a
raging, bubbling, frothing sea
that drowns my heart in riptide confusion,
all this darkness swallows me.

And do you know what it means to me,
to have your light spread inside,
when your soft skin slides against my own,
when your bones ache with mine?
You reveal a true self from within me
swimming up from that dark ocean.
And then you make me forget how the darkness suffocates

a little too much, or
a little too harsh, or
a little too heavy,