I drank from the cup

There is love, without exception

Pleasure without expression

Hope held deeply within your chest

Listening to you exhale I watch the shadows grow long across the floor

Licking chapped lips, kissing pricked fingers

Pry them apart like bones, unmarrowed 

Driving repetition and indifference

I’ve tasted, I’ve known

Like a trigger I’m pulled

and so in rising I cross the floor with dirty soles

Driven away, self exiled automaton with dreams dashed and splattered

Eyes open wide

Flayed, willingly and fully

Drenched and lathered

I spit out the bit and

Submit

Broken and pleasured