[Gaunt and decaying], I nestle

In soft folds of darkness. Sunlight suffocates

These withered lungs, so I swallow

Enough night [to drown in].

 

[Yet]

I thirst for your vibrant soul, for

Your dreams like powdered sugar,

For the velvet moon hidden

In your eyes, and the soft

Exhale

Of your love-

 

I search the constellations

[For you]

For your infinite calm

So that I

[I am

a storm]

May drink the summer you

Breathed into my veins, the

Fragmented roses beneath your

Skin, [Taste] the blood

Of your wounded

Recesses-

 

[A barbed tongue

           nonetheless]

 

To love, with my body

 

What my heart could not.