Submissions by cassandraa

I used to write about pain
The sadists, killers, vampires, and phantoms
That always wanted to consume my love
That I allowed myself to be consumed by
How blinded, dazed, and stupid I was
Then, armed with my masters
Write about how I survived
These constant attempts
To shatter my soul
Growing haughty and ignorant
I expel my love onto an unwilling
Unsuspecting
Unprepared
Victim
How desperately I want to rip your skin
Open your ribs
And expose your heart
Sink my teeth into your body
And drink your life
Take your sun ...

If anything
It should have been
A better thing
Staring at your soul
There is a deeper place
Of blood and love
That hides inside
This tension that I’m feeling
But now it is all inside of you.
Surprise, surprise
I miss your blood, you miss my love
And all this solitude
is my sanity eroding.
So we slide inside of another’s blood,
Or someone’s love
Until we can taste
Forged intimacy.
Maybe if I was
Anesthetized
Sterilized
Purified
We wouldn’t have this death
Of you me us
But surprise, surprise
A...

peeling
crumbling
you’re deathly hollow.
but his private vampires
crouched at the foot of your bed
threaten to swallow
the remaining drops of your humanity
and their swollen bodies steal
meager food from a soul forgot
invite him in
let him consume the lingering, undead fragments
from your silent life
the sick sweet taste
of heavythick love