5:35 p.m Lena

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Eyelid paint. . .

a ruined afternoon, no cigarette for the curve of my lips,

I sight-see in this world through the distortion in his eyes,

his acrid touch on reality.

Don't wake up. . .he says. . .

I can't. . .

His kiss only sends me back into the tide

Our love brews like wild mushroom tea; the steam drowns me. . .

I fluoresce upon engulfment like

 a direct conduit to a spiritual experience

he spills his lines on me. . .they transcend reality

the sting of the carpet burn. . .is a memory we don't care for,

we are each other's illusion of death;

I cry for more fuel in order to fake the hot temper, that keeps his wood burning

he is the destruction,

the pentacle with worn tips

the blemish on my reputation

His speech is so low, and so oily, it slides straight in,

he opens my wounds,  with a pick and shovel

and takes the calcium from my bones to feed the earth

He will die of unnatural causes for. . .me



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