stopping my heart means something like a love song played in reverse (an ache in prelude)

Tell me I'm loved 

as if mapping out

the figure of a swan. 

Within her parts, 

there are daggers 

and ellipses;

the kind that linger,

and hunger,

and hunt. 

What would it be like to be a bird, 

I wonder. 

At the end of the day, 

I'm a thousand miles away 

and a breath apart.