Your comprehension
of the space between my words
shocks
scares
excites me
makes me fall in love

I am the monster under your bed
eating your heart
I am the monster, I live in your head,
breaking you apart

**** time
and space if you can
taste each other
late in the night
summer haze
and the numbness of winter weeks
cold, still

diagnoses
never live up to our childhood dreams
inhale the novocaine air
lose your attempted symmetry

I still kiss your picture
every night before I dream
waiting for the day
I'll bleed from the shattered glass

pass the craved smoke
mouth to mouth
with the unsaid urgency
of saving yourself

My spine against your heart
arching
stretching
emaciated
grotesque
but you hold on

in our bad habits
we created a home
safe

from the terrors
numb like the nights

a ghost of a persona