You bleed over my lashes, blurring my vision.
I see only what you let me.  
Is there an escape, or is this all I've ever known?

You slick down my skin, coiling around my neck.
Heavy and gilded, you press and press.
My pulse hammers against your walls.
How do I breathe when every inhale feels like suffocation?

You seal my lips like an amber muzzle,
gluing my tongue to silence.
I scream, but my voice dissolves into you.
Do you hear me, or is my silence sweeter?

You creep over my limbs like vines,
dragging me under and I am clothed in your ruin.
I claw at the surface but my fingers slip.
You fill my lungs and run through my veins,
flooding me with no resistance.

I let you take me, let you coat my ribs.
Merged with you, will I ever be free?

Was I ever mine to begin with?