Until I Die or You Die in Me

We mingled our blood

Something in us awakened and multiplied

We mingled our blood

Now no one else can be the right fit

We mingled our blood

And now no one can tell us apart

 

We mingled our blood, and now when I move

I step on the right foot and the other comes loose

Perhaps that's why no words can go unscathed

When you compare love with abuse

 

There can be no other way -

Perhaps there never even was

When you belong and circle back to me

Until I die or you die in me

 

And when I lie, rooted firm into the ground

As any other withered tree

And all the insects picking at my skin

Choking and spewing on what I used to be

Till nothing living stays in me

Our mingled, filthy blood runs free

 

Ribcage hollow as your blue, dulled with earth eyes can be 

Entrapped maggots gnawing at my heart

The only thing left to be

The only thing left to taste

Is you, in me

 

You call to me

I call to thee

When February fades

And spring comes to me

 

You suck on my skin, just like a leech

You hide between my ribs but cannot get down to my lips

And when you break the bones to get down low

The marrow oozes out of my hole

Into your slender hand

It’s all filled with your name

You devour and taste me whole 

With our mingled blood, seeping out of your soul

 

Our bedroom, a gory scene 

I tug at your raven hair

Jack of all trades in the ways you undo me

But if you were to open your arms to me

I would weep, kick, and cry

Just like a little child

 

In sickness and in health

You lurk between my ribs

Crack them open

Illuminate the cancer

Then return back to me

 

I did not mind waiting for over a year

For all I feel returns to you

And bleeds in me

I have devoured you every day

And kept you with me

 

Because we’ve been put together wisely.

We’ve been destined to be

We’ve been purified and tamed

Before the punishment came to me

 

We tainted our blood

The moment you spun me around to my vinyl

We tainted our blood

The first time you took me to your premiere

 

And when it is truly time

Mingled, our blood will be

When it is truly time

You will still find me