My sweat soaks everything, memory You started off like the rest but something in your grip in the way you bit instead of kissed I didn’t flinch after a while I opened for it like a ritual (ritual… ritual…) I didn’t need tenderness I'm your angel with bite marks no not some hand to hold but a hand that could break me (break me… shape me…) It’s not a tragedy I was never a mother that was never the wound There was already something wrong inside me and you, with your exquisite cruelty I had a pain inside me and I needed you to cut me deeper. (deeper, deeper…) I tried to replace you like it was just something physical but their will was too weak and I missed your hands and teeth the tension you left in the air even when the room was left spotless spotless… bite bite I didn’t need tenderness I'm your angel with bite marks no not some hand to hold but a hand that could break me (break me… shape me…) It’s not a tragedy I was never a mother that was never the wound There was already something wrong inside me and you, with your exquisite cruelty I had a pain inside me and I needed you to cut me deeper. (deeper, deeper…) Black roses in a tall vase oh roses the color of secrets The ceiling—dark, a dull merlot The sun, just a haze behind blinds outlined my body like a question one you never answered directly (question… never answered…) I didn’t need tenderness I'm your angel with bite marks no not some hand to hold but a hand that could break me (break me… shape me…) It’s not a tragedy I was never a mother that was never the wound There was already something wrong inside me and you, with your exquisite cruelty I had a pain inside me and I needed you to cut me deeper. (deeper, deeper…) You said I only loved the surface but I stripped it bare for you Dark petals, cold wine, silence I didn’t want safe I wanted to be dissolved then left so numb (numbing… un-becoming…) The fan spins heat through this room and my body remembers you but I’m past needing it and that, somehow hurts worse than your hands ever did It hurts worse… than love… than love… and these Vampire bites These bites...