If you're happy and you know it...

That losing you rips a hole within me

I will never be able to heal?

What if you take part of my soul

God's sacrificial little wolf in sheep's clothing.

Never praised for her successes.

Tender

Kisses your wounds

Keeps you between his paws

Between his jaws

His little pup

His darling girl

His precious treasure

He howls when you come home

Growls when you're gone

Holds you by your throat

Blood soaking his fur

Staining his teeth

Until you stop thrashing

As all predators do

And he loves you

Loves you

Or leave me with nothing

Because this in between thing

That we're doing

Has never been enough for me

promise me,

it won't be

because you found someone comparable to me,

but because,

you found someone

so much better than me.

Because that's what you deserve.

That's what you've

always

Ya gotta drink alcohol

If you wanna feel

What destroys me

I know, already.

But the love she has for me

May just be

Enough

Terrible, terrible things.

But every single one,

Has been worth it.

Because they got me

Is say goodbye

Because you can't bear to leave,

He demands an answer I cannot give so I grin

What I am?

What I could be?

And my father's hands.

Delicate, graceful points on the end of each forearm

That join with fleshy palms and stubby fingers.

How do I make art with all this anger?

How do I live with all this grief?

How do I love with all this pain?

My grip is strong--too strong.

But my touch is weak.

So weak.

Yet I endure. Until I can't.

Until I break.

And I have my parents

Decay...

Ecstasy...

A special place in hell

Bones buried deep

Beneath soil, six feet

Tombstone pillow

Under the wavering willow

Your skeletal hand holds mine

Lost souls entwined

And there's no place I'd rather be