Faltering declarations of love Floating like incense on our fingers Like slime on moribund monuments Like filth lingering on the dead Like wasps on an infected wound Like babies of bats Kissing your gangrenous feet Like hollowness of two hearts Enclosed in a horrid infinity Like lungs filled with black water Like bones intertwined with each other In a discomfort so immense Like a cat choking on her mother's milk Like a scar that heals and still exists On our bodies like a curse Like an air balloon that bursts in our chests But doesn't **** us And still the pain of our dying love Is greater than all the ghastly metaphors And we know we can't save it So we have to let go of the dead fishes We have to let go of the dead wishes