Your words---love , deserve, forever--- Cling to my skin Like clothes sopping wet, ******* futilely at my neck, Impossible to shelter from The torrential nature Of your need
Your need, Like the clamoring cries of an infant, Screechy, demanding, Hanging helplessly on my arms, You pine for affection From this absentee mother figure; Futility resurfaces.
I feel the weight of you, Pressing on my chest: The crushing force of responsibility, Of dedication, of obligation eternal. I have written nothing Since your frigid winter crept into my home And ravaged my bed, my body, my dreams. You created my hollow life.
You carved your name Into my tender wrists With teeth honed to knives And fingernails like acid; You seared it with a kiss, Poured your toxin in my veins, Planted rue in my garden. Ruined. Never before have I wished more For death's swift embrace Than when I hear My name in your mouth.