hate to love

You said love, but your mouth was full of ash.

I tore out my ribs just to make you a home.

You called that devotion. I called it normal.

We were both wrong.

We don’t kiss, we hunt.

We don’t touch, we carve.

Your nails keep my secrets under them,

Mine keep your name.

I break your heart just to watch it crawl back.

You spit my sins back into my throat.

We don’t forgive here,

we trade wounds.

Come closer.

Bleed first.

I hate you exactly the way you want to be loved.