To touch you was not enough
I wanted to melt into you
Flesh into flesh, bone into bone
Lophiiformean osmosis
Until our vasculatures entangled
Until I could no longer tell
Where I ended and you began
Admire / aspire
Desire / expire
I wanted to feel it
The texture of my skin
Beneath your fingertips
To taste your iron in my mouth
To see these ocean eyes reflected
Through a veil of silvered locks
In our search for love
We so often find ourselves lost
A restlessness
That never yields to peace
I looked onward
And saw us as one
Stood on the rocks
The northern shoreline
And if I could not see that
My heart of hearts
I would you had shown me death
I looked onward
And saw us as one
Our pitch-black shrouds
Billowed around us
And if I could not see that
My heart of hearts
I would you had killed me
And death, indeed, I saw
Évacuer mon corps
Je te laisse mon vide
Toute ma place
Ma tyrannie contre la tienne
Misshapen back turned, embrittled
Against the foaming sea
Seven limbs, two heads
One heart, and breaking
A promise
Threaded between blades of seagrass
Receding with the tide
Would God I could die for thee
“But death is easy,” whispered he
“Choose life instead,” and this, I chose
For you, for us
For me
For me, my love
For me
