you are always so warm.
i want to feed you a strawberry and i want you
to accept it. desire pearling
on our lips ensanguined with crimson juice,
bruised from hunger.
take what's mine and put your mouth around it. eat from my hand, eat from me, eat me eat me eat me swallowmewhole
and keep me with you always—you are my home and i will die in you!
i would die a thousand deaths
to burrow myself in your warmth.
stay awake a little while longer, baby. let me promise you everything, watch me plunge into the lake and
drown, lap up my tears when the sadness threatens to consume me, too,
eat the strawberry and do it for me.
do it for me. witness everything and love
me for it anyway.
i can hear the murmurs of spring, but there are no gardens here.
so make me the first sin. so
tempt me and
lead me astray and
offer me salvation and
let me cup my hands around it.
do you choke on it, too?
my lips shudder
with the oaths i'm ready to take for you, and close is never close enough and i need to tear you open and
i need you to want it i need you to want me more more more more—
tell me you don't regret it.
tell me you'll find me in the meadow when you're ready.
