She burnt the colour of poison to your teeth
and you've spent the last year brushing them with bleach
just trying to rid the taste of her name off your tongue.
She uprooted all the flowers you planted in her hair
and she threw you to the wolves
because she didn't think you could handle the puncture wounds,
but you crawled fifty miles just to bleed out on her doorstep
and she never came down stairs to see your blood dripping from the porch.
My baby,
I know she made you feel like wind was getting trapped between your ribs
and your organs were losing space to pump your heart back into place.
I know she turned your spit into bitter regret
and beat the screams out from your chest,
I know you're frightened of the gap between my thighs
and all the lovers they have held,
but darling non before you have ever felt so sweet.
We're both still exhaling the fumes past lovers poured down our throats
*but maybe if we kiss for long enough
the chemicals will react and we can disintegrate together.