gasoline
like a virus, you embedded yourself into my veins,
you filled me with ecstasy,
a nightmare disguised as my greatest dream,
you came in and out of my life,
like a beautiful tide that splashed salt onto my wounds,
my cavernous wounds,
my little catastrophic love notes for you,
written in flawed flesh.
i tried to escape your wrath,
but its soft touch beckoned me,
drowning in the black of your soul,
i found comfort in your words,
my incessant misery was your doing,
but in blindness i was lost,
i tried to banish your lingering flame,
but i used gasoline.
-d.m.
