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Mwah
Layering lip gloss, daring him to do his worst, playful, I pretend that I am blind, to the desires that bind him to me, as if I cannot hear, what his hands scream. I ask him, with one glance of my eyes, to the lust in his lap, what his plans are for tonight, and…
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Casablanca
In the darkened hours, lost in fever dreams, orchestrating affectionate insanity, volcanic vulnerability, expecting the worst, yet I still jump, over the edge, unleashing the words I swallow, because I’m afraid you won’t like how they taste. Under the bright lights you bring to my life, tempted to stay, in the fantasy we create. Am…
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Love Is Cannibalism
I ask you again, before you’ve even finished reassuring me, for the thirteenth time, I ask you if I’m awake, existing in a time, where someone truly adores me. I rest my head, on all the scenarios I have seen, in my overactive, overexcited imagination, asking myself why I can’t sleep, why I can’t breathe,…
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Twenty Four Hours
Twenty four times, you bite your tongue, and think of mine. Your body betrays your mind, as you wake, your lap springs to life, your rest interrupted by your impulses, racing, restless, you waste time, trying to escape your yearning mind. Twenty four trips, to the shops, to the shed, to wherever you can be…
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Always?
I sink into strawberry sadness, mountain madness, discovering you is damning but delicious. I am dreaming again, of far away hiding places, where I can heal. I dreamed once, that love was an exorcism, a line that you drew, drawing all the solitude and sorrow from your skin, letting it wash away your disappointments and…