I know this will tear you down,
I know you won't be alright for a long time,
I know the sight of me will hurt you so.
But I am hurting next to you now,
But I am not happy lying to you,
But I am just dragging out the inevitable,
Can you just let me go.
Because soon ill have to end this if you don't.

Feel my breath adorn your stiffened shoulders
Now your cloak, as thick as heavy satin
Beneath ruby black sleeves your skin smoulders
From tattoos inked in my red-lipped Latin
Our songs are pressurized into jewels
I place the lovely earrings on your lobes
That stern gaze I taught you won't suffer fools
Nor entertain hissing genophobes
My precious mineral complexion acts
As the speckled fur underneath your crown
Tenuous heart strings of mine set their traps
And from my throat queue the trumpeting sound
Hold still, stand up proud, bare that throat fresh blue
Take the steps - and thus I coronate you

You separate my pages,
Lay me paper-down on the table,
And pull my covers together behind my back
So that I lay flat when you read.
My binding exposed,
You’re not surprised to see
I’m kept together by just a few, thin threads.

All this ink, and neither of us can get past the frailty of my physique.

I waited for you for as long as I could hold my breath,
And on the verge of death,
I had to let go.

two dead bodies buried in sheets
wrapped in white blankets
wondering, withering
no room for clean air
all has gone stale
I listened for your heart beat
couldn't hear a single sound
locked in your arms now
death sounded scarier
before I knew
loving and dying both feel the same