she told her body to be quiet
because yours wouldn’t stop screaming
*
you opened her body
to make space for yourself
*
you knew you’d apologise
after you set her world on fire
*
the way you said her name
revealed everything
*
apologies ready to go
apologies without a conscience
without a memory
up your sleeve
*
reality is a multi-faceted piece of work
apply it where you want
what makes reality real?
*
yours
or
mine?
*
lies always carried your voice
*
she’d numb her body
every time you sought her out
*
you kissed her with that mouth
*
violence survived the bodies on the deathbed
*
last words, next chapter, blowbirth
*
she served the flaws of the dead still
with her body
within her body
still
entertaining
force-fed
*
he turned a blind eye
to her cold shoulder
*
and she made herself do it
before he’d make her do it
Croque-Melpomene 