(And you love me anyway) by haphazardmelody, literature
Literature
(And you love me anyway)
I trap secrets
behind onyx teeth,
creasing my wrists
with your melody.
You spill truths
from incandescent fingers,
rejoicing (lamenting) companionship
through chrome power lines.
We swap batteries and candles,
hoping we light each others' ways
while still stumbling along our own.
I get too trapped
by my life's natural disasters
to remember to celebrate
the close-earned commodities
that spill into yours.
(I want to take this moment
for the thoughts that rot to frustration
on my tongue, but this should be
about both you and me.)
I want to cradle your dreams
in my palms, the way you steady
my fears in yours. But I bleed your heart
with my (
you promised me
a forever
perfumed in sunlight
[untether ribs
peel lungs]
you promised me
the past
shattered into landfills
[unlace nerves
fracture muscles]
you promised me
a present
anchored into cement
[unlatch throat
strip voicebox]
my skin will never forgive
the silk of yours and i will
bleed your words dry
with the whisper of my nails
to your waxcast veins