A collaboration with the beautiful and brilliant Stephanie-Bennett-Henry
He was intense.
A drug.
And I couldn’t get enough,
no matter how much of him
I consumed.
He was potent and powerful
and he ruined me.
And I yearned to ruin.
I kept going back for more.
I swear if I were to rip
myself open,
it wouldn’t be blood
that poured out of me.
It would be him.
© Nicole Lyons
I know him.
My fix.
I wanted to spend hours
just breathing him in and
holding my breath long enough
for every organ to say his name,
the way I did.
He put butterflies in my bones
and turned my heart into an
inferno. I can still feel the
butterflies swirling through
the flames, calling his name,
but my heartbreak calls him
the one that got away.
© Stephanie Bennett-Henry 2016
Nicole Lyons 
❤️❤️❤️ You’re brilliant! Love you!
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I love you too, Ms. Amazing ❤
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Reblogged this on PoetryofSL and commented:
Addicted
Always love writing with Nicole from The Lithium Chronicles ❤️
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This is such a smooth and intense collaboration, It would be both hugely flattering and terribly frightening to be thought of that way. Thanks, Nicole and Stephanie. reblogging
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Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
Intense poetry from Nicole and Stephanie
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He was intense.
A drug.
And I couldn’t get enough,
no matter how much of him
I consumed.
He was potent and powerful
and he ruined me.
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I needed to read this today. Brilliant words Nicole & Stephanie, love can either lift you up or take you to hell if you allow it. Very intense poetry.
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Gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS! Love the ‘butterflies in my bones’ line – that is SO very perfect 😀
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Familiar, so familiar, the ache, the intense feelings. Living without them now and that’s ok!
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love how the poem flows,great collaboration !!
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Spectacular Nicole and Stephanie! The imagery and urgency of the emotions is breathtaking.
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Breathtaking imagery and emotional urgency.
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Wonderful meditation on relationships, their gravity, their sting, their addictive nature.
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