somehow you found me and it was like- pomegranate suns i could swallow. i haven't been loved like this in a long time.
i remember when she first smiled sweetly, danced lightly, and kissed my sour lips and she said she loved me, but i knew the truth-
she intended to use my body like how mom scoops out red melon flesh from a rind, to pierce my heart with black pins and eyes that never looked right.
she whispered secrets to me and found my own. exploited my nature and soon i was hitting her across the cheek. she said she liked it and maybe she did, but i was crying.
when i try to speak it all comes up in tangled string and people don't believe me, even when they can see it. how could god make me a vessel only to be dissected.
now you're here and i can't even touch you without flinching, without feeling a phantom fire of the pains past "lovers" ignited, without a spark, a match.
you have a dark past, twisted through violet fumes. so do i, but only a reflection of the pages in your book. i'm tired of living with trauma, when we haven't moved in together.