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subtle forms of LOVE

LET her see my soul she won't run from it

i'd have her travel through cuts on my body

it is a dream to have her sit in my neurons in the special way she sits

her shoes off, feet dangling and toes skimming the surface of my cytosol

 

OLD habits die hard but what if they die quick

instead of biting my nails too short

she collects every nail i've discarded and builds a tower

to the heavens where we both should live

i can't hold onto the rope my fingers slip

i fall quick but its excruciating watching her watch me

 

VENOM is different from poison but who cares

if it permeates my blood and ends my life it serves the same purpose

why would venom and poison argue

one does the biting and leaves a line of spit

the one who gets bit leaves tainted blood in the others mouth

i think i've forgotten what my blood tastes like

she describes it to me in her giddy voice as if

somehow my blood is a deadly antidote

 

ECHO of my lost tears of a doomed laughter

its written on my scars that i am a fool

yet she lives in me and on me and with me

i find it less of a love and more of biology

what else can i name someone who breathes me

bleeds me kisses me dies with me

isn't the most subtle form of LOVE the one

where you can't seem to see it

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22 / M / California
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Feb 7
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