Consume Me

Eat me in the way a longing does,

Slow, deliberate,

Like you’re memorizing the shape of me

With every touch, every breath.

Like you’ve been starving for pieces of me

Long before you ever touched my skin.

Take me in your hands

As if I’m something you’ve waited your whole life to taste.

Let your want be patient,

Let it be sure,

Let it study every fragile part of me

Like you’re learning a language

Written only in my bones.

Eat me until there’s no more of me.

Nothing for me to hide behind,

Nothing left I can disguise.

No more pieces left untouched.

Take me down to marrow,

Down to the soft, trembling core.

To the softest parts of my soul,

I hide from everyone but you.

Unmake me gently

Slowly

Unravel me like a prayer you're too afraid to speak too loud

Take everything,

The warmth, the fear, the wanting,

And hold it on your tongue

Like something sacred.

Peel away the versions of me I pretend to be,

The strength I fake,

The smiles I borrow,

The armor I wear because the world never learned to hold me.

Taste the fear,

The longing,

The quiet ache I only show in the dark.

Take even the pieces I don’t know how to love.

Take the parts of me that shake

When I finally let myself feel wanted.

And as you pull me apart,

As you take what’s left of me

Into your hands,

Onto your tongue,

Into the warm hollow of your breath,

Say it.

Tell me how much I mean to you.

Tell me you want every part,

Even the flawed ones

Tell me you hunger for the parts 

I've always been scared to offer

Even the ones I try to bury.

Tell me I’m worth the hunger,

Worth the slow unraveling,

Worth being consumed

Down to my deepest, barest core.

Let every word sink into me

As surely as your touch,

As surely as the way you take me in

Piece by trembling piece.

Consume me

Until I am nothing but honesty,

Bones and breath

And whatever remains of me

That still reaches for you

Even as I’m undone.

Make me yours

In every quiet, aching way

Slowly,

Completely,

And without mercy.

-dmnd