mutually assured destruction

drown in oceans of pride, baby boy, but make sure to hold your head above the water. break your spirit for the roar of people saying your name, put down who you were like a beaten dog. hold the corpse of the you who revered my name like an offering to an absent god, bury it under six feet of soil and watch it take and take and take, see the wither and rot spread from a cadaver embalmed with half-truths and not yets. turn your back to the poison, baby, and let it decay into dust and mulch under your heels as you run away. 

tell the world my name and canonize me as a patron saint of cruelty, immortalize my legacy long after we are both decomposed in satin-lined coffins. take my hand and feel the theme to our divine demise in the harmony of our pulsepoints pressed together.

 till death do us part, sweetheart, and beyond until the end.