limbless

love doesn't always win,

sometimes it caves and crawls just out of sight

where it can't be shot down

I hear it thumping hard and dragging it's body against the wooden floors

it's so fucking loud

I swear I see it every time I look down in shame

and when it's limbless head peaks through my legs, while I'm sitting on the couch

ill push that head down

it nibbles at my little toe and tongues my leg

till' I reach down and play with it like a dog