H.C.

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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