BUTTERFLY NETS BURSTING WITH SCORPIONS

By xserratedsoulx


{The day my god died, you were born.}

I love you like hunger.

{I breathe you in—star-dew and eternity—hold you in and in and in, until my lungs burst like a blood blister.}

I love you like the scream of a bullet, I love you like pixie dust dripping from eyelashes. Like peanut butter pie, like venom, like candle-wax and rain colliding with a windowpane. I love you in a weeping willow whirlwind, in a glitter-glam bubblegum romance.

{You are an eyelash storm frenzy of honey-suckle-stained lips, a mountain-range of teeth and the inverted scream of my fingernails slow-dancing up and down your spine, making a gasoline-shiver rainbow in your lovely bones.}

I love you like a sleepy hollow lullaby, like a train-wreck voice. I love you like forget-me-nots in a wasteland, like staccato spoonfuls of star-shine grasshopper shriek, like---

{There is poetry tattooed in your kisses.}

I love you like spinning spider-web safety on porcelain, like a crystal wineglass crash, like lollipop lipstick lingerie. I love you like a candy apple necklace or a jellybean jigsaw, like cherry-plum pie and Cinderella slippers, like minx coats without the murder.

{You feel like infinity.
You taste like forever.}

I love you like kaleidoscope vision, like the burn of snow, like silver on a dirt-drenched day. I love you like tearing out the stars with scissors, watching glitter pour from the holes in the sky.

{We twist like licorice in the sheets.}

I love you like pretty-pain, like being strangled to death by a feather boa. I love you like rosebud miracles, like the pink pulse of Halloween lights draped across your ceiling. I love you like falling from a burning poinsettia into a snow-cone sunset.

{My fingertips drip their rabid intent for your pinecone throat, your kite-string arteries and violin-string veins unraveling in a waterfall, your flesh like a trillion fireflies fluttering against mine.}

I love you like pink cotton candy sugar on strawberry milkshake tangled tongues entwining before the taste dissolves, like chandeliers cascading down from a cob-web ceiling.

{We stand barefoot in a swan-storm of falling feathers, our serpent lips screaming red, finding the land of milk and honey, lapping it up like kittens, tongue-bathing in the blood-heat.}

I love you enough to stop sheep slaughter nightmares,
enough to regain a paradise lost,
enough to burn holes in every petal from every flower in every country,
enough to sun-burst and star-shatter entire galaxies.
I love you enough to melt clocks and flood the desert where dreams go to die,
love you enough to crush dead leaves and create sunshine.

{We are never-ending.}

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© 2007 xserratedsoulx
Published on Friday, December 28, 2007.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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