I am black and blue and in love with you

I step into the rain with salt lick shoes and as they melt away I remember the look you gave me the first day you stayed

our routine of leaving was interrupted by your irrational desire for nearness

it wasn't something you were used to but my fingers were coated in honey dew and as I touched your skin you grew accustomed to the lack of space between our faces

how could I argue with your rose petal words and thorny tongue that captured mine in an embrace so deadly I only felt the effects once I pulled away

everything was a hazy golden and I think I forgot the contract of casualty in which our contact was founded and we exchanged the forbidden fruit

we were never intentional and when I think of the consequences I flinch on instinct you were never very careful with me

everything circled around convenience and somewhere I lost the honest agreement with the way you twisted my heart around your finger like a rubber band

your knuckles mistook me for a brick wall but I still caught you when you'd fall

the saltwater in the soles of my shoes is rusting my toes and I can't move anywhere but towards you

it's a curse I'm surviving but you took away my life

I only left once you picked up the knife not that you had never pointed it in my direction but this time I detected your true intention

for once it was safer to run