we scream i love you in parking lots of schools we don’t go to anymore and we mean your hands around my throat will leave bruises; we brush cheeks and lips and hearts like they’re all the same because we think it will make us feel alive we fill our lungs with each other and call it breathing. with sunrise comes the aftermath, comes the craters formed by grenades thrown over no man's land they look too much like her eyelashes and the spiderweb cracks across the ground feel like her fingertips inside of you last night, you tried to kiss your way to Olympus but stained your lips pomegranate red and damnation has never tasted this sweet. i touch you for the first time like you’re a life raft and you don't know that i have only wanted to drown the 3 am caress of your teeth on my collarbone is my oxygen, my blood and sweat and childhood home so i take a breath i tighten the line that reels me in the scratches on my back are from your hook and i still don’t know if i was the fish or the bait. tonight the clouds let fall their freshwater tears to water the moss growing over my petrified heart and for a moment the lightning outshines the moon it only lasts for a second and i think of the wildfires you set ablaze in a heartbeat and my heart has stopped beating.
m.g.d. // kiss me, kill me













