The Killing Love

You must understand that I love you,

First and foremost.

From the very aching depths of my broken bones

To the wounds slashing me open

Letting all this warmth

Seep from my flesh into the dirt like rain,

I love you from the bottom of my blood

To the bubbling top of my boiling soul.

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It's an ugly, imperfect love,

A beating obsession that twinkles like the asteroid

Sheering through the atmosphere

Grinning as it shouts,

"I will end you!"

Because what love is worth existence

When cataclysmic ends

Are an option?

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Second and last, you must know that I have the teeth

To rip you open

And expose thoughts

Nestled in side your chest

That you never believed you possessed.

I can smell them like lightning, burning inside of you,

Searing memories into your ribs

Before you even register the pain.

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There is a ghost inside of me,

Haunting your passion, your pleasure.

It marches through the weeds

Of your desires and makes maps

For me to follow

When the lights go out.

I will always know you better

Than you know yourself.