consumption.

In spite of everything,
you’re collecting dust on my shelf
next to every other sorry soul
I ritualistically commodified
and consumed.
I’m sorry, my devouree.

rattled.

You cut me deep, and
I’m ashamed to have let you break me so completely.
Left me a pile of bitter bones, so much so
three years later I’m still rattling.
I confess the karmic irony.

unspeakables.

Watched the weight of my actions
pin you down and paint you into a corner.
All the unspeakables, spoken
and I have no words left
to defend myself.

infinity.

Standing in my own way,

I'm repeating old patterns
praying for the sweet release
of insanity.
Familiarity to sink my teeth into.
I find my crumbs always lead back to you.

painted on.

Painted my fingers
on to your skin, stretched tight
and stiff from application.
I said I'd never let you go
and if you're into that
that we should break the skin
to forge these promises,
etch them into bone.

unironically calls her father ‘daddy’.

We provide an insight into our broken fucking youth:
fucking each other for things to do.

My homegrown villainess waits in bed
spewing hot, ashen stares in my direction,
devious but no deceit.

Taking a dangerous cue from my humanistic impulses, i
batten down the hatches and stain her smile.

I’m no hometown hero, but something isn't right.

brutal truth.

brutal truth,
I mythologized you
and make no excuses for my
rampant romantic rhapsodies.

highly primitive.

future's listening,
what'd you say?
highly primitive
highly primitive desire

strange beast.

your dagger stares
awaken a strange beast
within

primal pursuit.

suddenly awakened by a
primal pursuit
my skin aches for your
small sparks