love me love me love me

love me love me love me everywhere i turn i see little voices crying out love me love me love me & how i wish i had enough love to give- enough patience, enough kindness, enough of a metaphysical being...

i sit in the bath and stare at the candle that has yet to blow out- last one left. i am drawn from the bath to a room and yet in the room i sit the same way: why did i leave the comfort of the bath? come on come on come on, here is a towel, come to bed says the voice, come out of the bath and into the room. i struggle to blow out the candle. love me love me love me, it says. 

love me love me love me cries the here, listen to this, love me love me first reply the half-full jars of water still on the window sill, soldiers, ex wives, forgotten after battle. the rain throws herself against the roof, love me love me love me

let me in 

let me crawl into you, your little cracks and crevices and the holes in your ears and sit and fester. let me wash away the dirt from the day and leave behind nothing but wet flesh. i never said i would make you clean, mind you. i never said i would make you clean.

love me love me love me cries the rain, seeping in through the holes in the roof with whom she's become all so well acquainted. let me in, up under your skin and let me drip from your ceiling to your floor in big fat drops. 

love me love me love me demands the cat, no matter how many times you push her away. she'll come back and purr just to sit next to you no matter how many times you send her back out that door. 

love me love me love me cries the face on the billboard, love me love me love me love my silicone breast implants surgically inserted through your belly button.

love me love me love me cries my pounding headache, forcing my skull in two, making it big enough.

love me

love me