Your grave still steaming, dirt under my nails I dug you back up when the last rose failed One milky eye tracking me through the dark I whispered “forever” and you left a mark You clawed through pine like it owed you a debt Maggots in the lace of your wedding dress I brought you lilies already gone brown You ate the petals then knocked me to the ground That groan you gave me was better than “yes” I carved our initials in the meat of my chest Don’t gulp me down like cheap graveyard wine Chew me to pieces — Take all that is mine EAT ME Take the heart while it still knows your name EAT ME Let the worms finish what your teeth began EAT ME If love is hunger, then eat me to the bone I’ll live in your stomach and I'll never go home I keep your jawbone under my pillow at night It noshes when I dream and it tells me that I’m right Your black tongue writing scripture down my spine Every nibble is a vow, reminding me you're mine Take me all into you, leave nothing to waste I want to be the last living thing that you ever fucking taste I’ll be the warmth that your cold hands remember You’ll be the dark that I crawl toward forever If devotion means vanishing into the rot Then open wide baby — swallow the lot EAT ME Leave the eyes so I watch as I go EAT ME Turn my bones into your bread, nobody has to know EAT ME No altar, no priest, just your teeth and my blood The only “I do” that was ever enough Chew with your mouth open. I love the sound.
