Love Poem No. 01

[shemthepenman]

You get inside the hole
and make a hole inside
where a hole does no good;
fit a space in my lungs, so’s I can’t breathe;
hollow out my eyes, so’s I can’t see;
wring out my veins, empty my stomach,
take out my bones one by one
and jettison my organs, heart, liver and spleen.

Your anorexic dimensions stick into my memory,
fidgeting through my mettle and blood.
You squat over me at the curve I drink on,
the bend I think along,
spread thin over time spread thinner.

And you get inside the hole
and make a hole inside
where a hole does no good.
You scuttle across my sucked dry skin,
paint over my ears,
fill in my nose
then take me apart limb by limb…