A Sphinx

A flicking tail, yawn all teeth and treasures pressed against a warm belly, those childish secrets and vision engines of glass and glitter.

I loved you, it purred while licking a paw and looking past you to the horizon.

Was it speaking to you or to the end of the day?

Hisses amongst forbidden kisses in the shade, tall grasses rustle, flies bite, thorns rip at clothing…

Violent eyed with a forked tongue and acrylic claws trace your edges.

You will be the one to shatter, but you wish to cut yourself on its edges, those boundaries you cannot infiltrate.

It is a Sphinx of your misdeeds. A promise you broke like a bone, the secret that was better kept.