Crazy thoughts from the edge of reasonCardiomasochism
I want to rip my heart out
This betrayer of my life
It finds the one thing,
The one impossible thing
The once unthinkable
Unexpected pain of l…
It aches like arthritis
Making even the bones
Shake within their wrappings
It pulls the ribs inward
By means of a black gravity
Like vices to compress
Air and blood into lo…
I cannot reach the beast
Hidden inside its cage
Of ivory bars and garnet
Sinews woven like Kevlar
Immune to the clawing
Fingers that scrape
Seeking for no escape
As it tries to breed lov…
How can this mindless
Mass of meat and muscle
Generate so much energy
That it can overwhelm
My better senses and
Hurt so completely
That the pain of it
Flows through my blood
Like the acid burn of love.
