. <3 .

[cera]

it was warm dry cracked
and cradled
wet red dripping promise
in your palm -
my heart -
with five wide digits to
bar a cage of forever,
you said,
forever.
every inch of me gave up
without an ounce of fight,
surrender on my lips
as you approached -
i smelled you.
bared my neck to thirty two
pearls
incisor sharp
and hungry,
i was yours before you even
asked.
i was alive as you devoured
me in the dark;
i watched, fascinated,
rended wide and
limb from limb - apart
and at once
more whole then i remembered -
you consumed me.
i was not afraid,
deft hands hot breath
gentle and brutal and peeling
back flesh from bone
from memory - not afraid -
a simple fact
more terrifying then
the sight of myself, inside out
beneath you.
if love is hungry then
this was so much more;
you barely paused from
stem to stern,
sure and certain and bit by
bit brought me
down slick gullet and
churning factory of two
to one,
solid to liquid, absolute,
to absolution,
redeemed.
i hardly remember sleeping,
and yet i woke -
liberated from my flesh
the earth,
the dense demanding gravity
what long had anchored me
to place.
yours now,
and gone
and yet
more real then i remembered -
you consumed me.
as the door clicked closed behind you
the air was
salt and tears and iron.
i rumbled in you when you walked.