Contamination seeps and weeps from pores and migrates from your skin to mine I cannot see it but I feel it, sliding over me and sinking through layers Through my skin and my nerves and my tissue down right to my bone Where you pause; take a breath, look around; Try on my internal machinery for size and speed and duration Drag and rip and tear my insides for a sign and the very spark of life Then, once located you break through, right down and into my marrow And consume all it is there that makes me immune Become a part of me in the parts that I was not even aware existed A lovely parasite who feeds on my secrets and bathes in my blood A darkness within which perfectly mirrors that already present Both of me and alien, twisting the two so intertwined that no lines can be drawn Until we are but intermingled and so all is lost in bones that have become yours All that skin and those nerves and those tissues, lost unto me and gained by you To be devoured through duplicities of dancing and deception A most beautiful way to die, to simply cease to exist to be Devoured by a love so consuming and false that not a trace will remain When you do not falter but dance on; playing out your parody of happiness With all of those who once thought that they too knew the steps
But now what remains at last knows better And as it burns it both regrets and adores you It both loves and it hates you Wanting but denying the need for a being so superfluously mendacious in their meaning So extensionally versatile with their morals and reduced in magnitude by their ploys Now the ash can rise above, constrained by no sentiments to bind nor naivety to hope To fade into comforting insignificance as you compose a ******* of life with bitter strings Tying irreversible knots in all others connected to your skin; secured by but the very finest of threads On the edge and ready to leap; always with a larger hand in sight and the treachery to take it.