she had lips of lush
cheeks rosy with flush,
her wild dreams
i tore at the seamsto paint my skin blue and velvet
was always his deepest covether cries are more music
than her laughter
her tears taste sweeter
than her lipshe prefers my flesh tormented with all hues of mauve and indigo
it reminds me of an impressionistic oil painting by Monet,
each brush stroke brutally slapped onto her canvas skini know he loves me
with each inhale of his smoke charred lungs
and every pulse of boiled liquor in his bloodstreamit isn't i who pains her,
it is another man
with the same handprints as ipain is more affectionate than kisses
the rivers run ruby red
like the blood in my arteries
and the ichor in Hade's veins,
what is it that runs through his system?
is it blood the colour of his wine
or is it ichor, the colour of his liquor?
the colour of his glory and gore?each tear drop of hers is a violent delight,
and each cry for help is a lustful fighteach cigarette he torches me with
feels like falling in love
all
over
againand every night i'm alive
i lay in his lethal night sheets
i pick my last words,
like how i would pick petals off a flower,
over
and
over
again
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