Love Song VII

To chew through your tendons through the bands of rubber on your limbs To drink from the veins of your artery so your heart turns a shade of sickly gray To turn you a sort of plush To poison you so deeply your tissue expands The clapping of your hands like the gentle prodding of rain on strands of grass To dehydrate all of you till you fit in the crater of my collar To wait for the nutrition to puncture my blood stream To watch my skin replenish its warming red To feel the marrow in my bones giggle To know that the ends of your nerves are disintegrating in my belly How lovely you are only as you’re shredded into pieces only as you burn into the vessels of my body only as our DNA merges only as I can say with all my being that you are

Mine.