Human Consumption
Let me taste you.
I need to feel you
Sliding down the inside of me.
Can we make that arrangement?
Do you think it’s too much, too soon?
Because I can try to hold back
Just stay silent while I swoon.
But I just need to touch you.
Curl up beside you and feel you.
I need to experience you.
Cuz even if I don’t get to keep you,
I need you to be buried
beneath my skin
again and again,
Even for the briefest of moments,
Pretending you are tilling my soil.
I need you to dig deep.
Turn my earth til you find the moist dirt.
Submerge your fingers.
Press them into my skin until I have
Reminders of what you found in my
Hollowed out caves and
Underwater caverns.
Show me proof that you did not drown,
That you weren’t overwhelmed by the
Pure, unadulterated depths that steal breath.
Prove to me that I can swallow you whole
And you’ll still be all I need.
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