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Litany of a Kiss

Hopeless romantic—I want to cry. Feelings pressed so deep, they die

quiet deaths between sighs. I don’t know what you see in this eye—a

dim-lit portrait, painted in the bruises of love dye. Questions coil

around my spine, but the heaviest one hisses: __“Who the **** am

I?”__

 

When we kiss, let’s make it sacrament—a whispered heresy, tongues

speaking in wet prophecy. But you don’t kneel for any father. You’ve

made altars from broken men with daddy-issue blueprints. And I—

just another one trying to fix what wasn’t mine to mend.

 

My fingertip—a brushstroke on your bitten lip, painting the hunger

before it slips. You wear love like fingerprints around your throat,

scarred tender from where I once held your breath like a prayer.

 

You're unsure of yourself, but I make you a shoreline—soft enough to

land on, wild enough to drown in. You become my bay, my mouth’s

favorite practice ground. _My wreckage. My beach._

 

Each kiss tastes like searching for sin between your teeth—warm, wet

confessions we never speak. A shared gasp for air in the ache between

moans, as if pleasure could ease the pressure clawing beneath our

bones.

 

Would we love longer, or be like everyone else, hoping to just ****

better? Could your heart even measure what my hands now own?

Your body echoes beneath sweat-glazed skin, like a haunted song I

still hum. The feelings crawl, then collapse—pulling me under. Like

a dream that bites back. One that begs to be real. But this love has

only a few moments to taste that real.

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Written by
OddOdysseyPoet
27 / M / Zimbabwe
Published
Jun 17, 2025
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25·260
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#darkromance#eroticprose#sensualpoetry#loveanddamage#fleshandghosts#intimateconfession#brokenlovers#emotionalseduction#bodyasprayer#dreamsthatbite
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