the brick of my bones
built of neither valor nor vice
colorless.
heaving, shaking, cracking,
undone.
i reached in
pulled it out
let you prod and poke
you asked
begged
demanded
to hold it.
-crushed by the weight
coughing ash
spitting smoke
my lungs burn
the fire in my throat
but
but
but
i love you
but.
you took
and took
and took
what
you
wanted.
and left the rest.
rotting. decomposing. forgotten.
betrayed.
alive. and on fire.
my skin itches
i lay motionless
a supine prayer
to be torn clean
feast on the flesh
of those that came before
and
left their sticky mark
my arms reach back for you
wind where warmth once stood.
your fingers wrapped around my hair.
face down.
forgetting my head on the shore.
-when yes means no
the dust that settles.
remnants of you.
left behind.
you shed yourself of me
slipped out of my skin
like
it
was
nothing.