How Easily We Unspool
How I Get
— Laufey
Digital Experience • Official Audio Stream
We build our lives on careful restraints. We construct our days without the burn of smoke in our lungs, without the heavy, erratic burden of reckless bets or sudden furies. We tell ourselves we are immune to the chaos of addiction, that we walk in straight lines and do not do things we will live to regret. And then, there is you. You become the sudden, unexplainable deviation. It is strange, how easily the walls of our resolve collapse when the right shadow falls across the room. I look at my own hands resting in the quiet of the night, and I do not recognize the ways they instinctively reach for you.
I find myself wanting all of it—even your terrible parts. Especially your terrible parts. There is a greedy, hungry horror in this kind of wanting. I take every awful corner of who you are and I bite down, taking much more than I can safely hold, just to feel the heat of you against the encroaching cold.
It is a violent, desperate kind of comfort. We consume the ones we know are bad for us because the warmth they offer is absolute and immediate. Sitting here in the dark, I am terrified by my own hunger, by the realization that I am willing to swallow your ruin whole if it means I do not have to shiver alone.
The pendulum always returns. It swings back around with an unbearable weight, bringing the craving with it—a sudden rush in the veins, a deeper chaos in the quiet mind. I know exactly where this descent ends. I know the dread waiting patiently at the bottom, a looming silhouette standing motionless in the dark. Yet, I make no move to stop the fall. I offer no resistance. I simply close my eyes and let the gravity pull me under, whispering into the hollow of your neck that this is just how I get.
The heavy breathing eventually slows, and the room returns to its exact, unforgiving shape. I leave you resting in the tangled sheets and walk to the kitchen, the cold floorboards pressing against my bare feet like a sobering truth. I pour a glass of water, watching the pale streetlights cut blindly through the window blinds, and I realize that the hunger has not vanished; it has merely gone to sleep. Tomorrow, the sun will rise, and I will tell myself once again that I am someone who does not gamble, someone who walks a safe and quiet line, knowing full well that when the evening falls, I will gladly let it sweep me away once more.
the next room we will refuse to leave
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