Childhood Development

ragged and raging

in darkness pressed against her skin

a saint to your elders

an elder to your saints

behind the pink door

aging well

still able to sing my heart

kill it she said 

this won’t last but i will love you through

- life is not waiting -

she stained him a purple mess

never the same note

a music of scents

the taste of iron in my mouth 

spit 

cum everywhere

and a wetness coating the walls

we are inside her

ripping the fabric we are covered in 

tearing it down to be lost and won 

some sick sense of dread and awful seeping in 

never can you be this way again child

unsafe in the world of men

shamed and threatening with a hovering violence

a thick black mass of mucus

and a throat full of love

give it up 

this well is being plumbed for all its worth 

and you sit at the bottom of it expecting to be touched

when the last inch of these tendrils is gone

and the rushing and wailing has ceased

safe in quiet 

killed like that

a mistress for your mouth to mulch

go down

this is the bed on which we feast

this is the breathing that will one day cease

don’t act like this isn’t happening

don’t try to act like this isn’t happening