I taste blood as it fills up my mouth
biting down chewing the thoughts of you.
The crashing hope settles in a drought.
Rust will not discontinue

their metallic lick along my teeth,
leaving blankets of acidic cavities.
Every time your name appears beneath
the frenzy that I tried so hard to ignore, I write my eulogy.

You killed me by leaving me.
The installation of expectations
that perhaps you could return, fully
set me up for devastation.

Corrosion slinks in the pores of my sore tongue
demons replacing your face stung.