The Distance Between Your Heart and Mine

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground And I have found my place now that I am here. When we exhaust our resources and the flame dies, The house grows cold and the light fades. I have been told no one can know The true distance from your heart to mine. Blood types pool and then they disperse from one another. As if they had some place better to go. It’s now putrid scent has clung too tightly On my tender flesh all red and scarred. Finger nails will leave their mark On sunken and shadowed skin. This viscous fluid flows slowly down your body Like a terrible molten stripping down to bone. This is who I have become This is the sickness that I am. Terrible damage running deep into my tissue And I cannot believe the horror of what I do. Striped bare and left here to die, As you bind our arms with razor wire. They rub this sulfur into my wounds. Burning skin that reminds you of the truth I don’t mind how much you hurt me- Just that you kiss me while you do.