opium kisses

Its lungs full of smoke

A scream full of glass

Where you spit and spit

But the shards are wedged too hard

In the gums of your teeth

And you hardly breathe

Its melancholia cloaked in anger

And draped in a burgundy of jealousy

Where happiness is shiny pebbles

We’d fill our pockets full of holes

So that happiness would drain

From the punctures in our hearts

And onto the pavement and grass

You’d hug me tight

To try and drain that

Fear and loneliness apart

But it would swarm and multiply

And soon you’d be in its arms

And we’d stand there cold and uncomfortable

With that fear and sadness

Pouring out our minds

Through our mouths

And the softness of our hearts

Would crease and dissolve

Merciless and full of disdain

You leave kisses in my mouth

They crowd and steal my breath

I leave opium seeds in yours

And you dream of dead things

Eating up our flesh and consuming our souls

And we sleep together

In a bed full of roses

Their thorns dig into our bones

And I scream for you to save me

From the lives that want to take me

But you fill my lungs with your breath

And don’t let me depart alone

You fill my blood with drugs to ward off death

In bathtubs

We cut our wrists

Like daisy flowers

They bloom in the water

And you become drunk on my life

And I become drugged on the fluid of your veins

But the water turns cold

And we don’t reach oblivion

You and I

We belong

To a race

Of the dying

To the nation

Always trying

To avoid death

But escape

The tragedy

Of life