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Once upon a time, every fingerbredth of my skin was covered in the swirls and ridges of your ardent love.

I can't help that I crave the sensation of your greedy sepia fingers between my anxious ivory ones, just like the feeling of your chunky cobweb chatter between my eager ears. Those intricate gossamer vows descend as frosty flakes onto burnt cheeks, but lies are lies no matter who tells them. I am but a gullible ghost, a figment of your adoration. You should have pulled your acid tongue out before it pillaged my insides.

Mornings taste like caramel, but only when they're ripe. They manifest themselves as sunbeams to dent your sinewy skull. The army of adhesions that are in a state of perpetual war with your forehead make you more stubborn even than Napoleon, and more reckless even than me. In the season of reasonable doubt you cured my fear of the dark. The blackest place I've ever been is the back of your mind.

Behind your sugar-glazed eyes there's a map of paradise as you see it. Gazebo love and me, under your skin, more ways that we can count. It wasn't until I started sliding away that you sunk your talons in. Now you've bitten your nails to their beds, in the off chance there'd be even the pettiest hint of the flavor of me beneath them.

This rivulet called Consciousness is laden with treachery and foam and the surrounding air is thick with the stench of secret secrets. Remember, lies are lies, no matter who tells them.
I don't know who you thought you were fooling when you told me I was special.

I knew better.

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AlterEgo1629's avatar
Oh the imagery. Lovely, lovely.