I fastened my heart to your sleeve
I pinned my dreams to yours
For a moment in time you were mine
The sun & the moon keeping score

You lifted my hair with your breath
I told you my hideous truths
We laid side by side spent
Our hands fitting neatly as grooves

I'd have died for you over and again
Touch linking us stronger than words
Taken any hit of the fallen sword
Leveled my life for yours

What came before your firey touch
Where had the others gone
Little by little and one by one
Chased away by our twisted bond

Destructive, so often we'd clash
Pressed on by the blood we drew
Running to and away from our mess
Ever stirring our emotional rue

You hurt me with each plunge of your blade
But how I breathed you in
I fought for you, a jealous rage
No matter what the cost had been

Slowly we filled like blisters in the sun
Marching over the fields we'd broken
Thrashing and slaying in wrought desperation
Savage and ugly, the heinous words we'd spoken

Transparent as glass, we were done-finished-finally weaned
I felt you slipping and watched you ebb
Feeling severed from the limb that once had held my dreams
I took back my heart, dusting it off, quietly watching as you fled