months have passed since i bathed in tears, an impressionable body succumbing to collapse, genuine but vulnerable and aching for favorable hyperbole
the serpent wound its way up my body after you left, soiling whiteness with promises of infinity and drunken clamoring for human flesh
shrugging off the snakeskin we were raw and verdant but hissing toxic, striking lunging as your heart corrodes, our potential decaying but not dead
i broke the bars of that cage but the remains of betrayal still pry our yearning hands apart
