୧ 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 ୨

She was a moth kiss in a jar my sister, my star split in half Now the house wears her shadow like silk pinned to a nail I carry her name on my tongue a butterfly bruise in my mouth Soft as petals in rain hard as a thorn in the throat And I learned the bloom that kills how the vine drinks light and lies Wisteria, wisteria curling like a prayer in disguise Butterfly, butterfly I’m coming back Butterfly, butterfly black in the black Your ghost in my veins keeps sharpening me Butterfly, butterfly watch me sting He laughed with a wolf’s clean teeth like winter wearing a man So I tucked poison in my wine and let the cup look like peace It slid down like moonlit honey slow as a vow in the dark Every swallow was a staircase down to the door of his heart And the garden taught me this: beauty can bite like a blade Wisteria, wisteria sweetness with a hidden shape Butterfly, butterfly I’m coming back Butterfly, butterfly black in the black Your ghost in my veins keeps sharpening me Butterfly, butterfly watch me sting At first I was a hymn a ghost in a glass cathedral Now my hands are storms and I do not ask for gentle He took her like dawn takes color now I take back the night One drop, one breath, one ending one garden burning bright Butterfly, butterfly I’m coming back Butterfly, butterfly blood on the track His mouth turns to ash when I lean in close Butterfly, butterfly I don’t break—I go Butterfly, butterfly hear the hiss in me Butterfly, butterfly this is what she needs Wisteria, wisteria wrap him like a noose Butterfly, butterfly I become the bruise