Alone I dip
locking myself in the cupboard
to sink into the blackness
sweating the disturbances out of my pores
while you sleep
before you wake
catapulting into darkness
a wetness, lovely and new
fear, the leach that you are
be gone now
writhe alone
you are not to be fed by me
sidling silly into bliss
living by my heart
running along side with the quavers
beating out the dents in your old beast
they all know that I am now in town
underneath shadows simmer
wandering, lost
to teach them where they belong
we overlap, holding winter dry hands
my joints ache, calming in your skin
I take a breath to learn to break
a monster in my own mirror
but I am shedding...
what a lovely, painful mess
