like haunted steps on a newly built mansion
like all the traumas you never mention
like breathing through your mouth
like crying when the lights are out
like wishing you lived in a soundproof house

He knocked back a bottle
     maybe
     three or four
We were both drunk
     upside down
     on the floor
A play of tongues
     and sweet-bitter
     wine
Forced reactions
     and a thunder
     inside

When he pressed his body
     against mine

Go and change the world with me
Open your eyes, this is reality
An unsafe place for us to be
‘Cause we‘re ruled by inhumanity