You, Him, and everything in between
Sunset filters through the cracks of our lives I lie in the bathtub, bleeding dry Drowning in blood, I cry My body falls apart until breathing feels light. There's my water supply, running away down my breasts, carrying my youth-blue days It pulls the salty tears out of my eyelids Then my saliva bubbles and dissipates. Moths in my stomach where butterflies should've flied Intestines vomit an empty pack of Camel, a half-digested serenade, mold from the bile of his bites. My abdomen twists into itself, juicing out the clogged, half-hearted sex Before it detonates into chunks, —on the walls, curtains, to the shower head rains down on me. Sinking in my own remains a sailboat sloping over the human. Everything slips out of me to leave room for an empty skeleton Hugging it is the pulsing of putrid flesh. as I continue to decompose and choke, His love pushes me down low His love...