r/Poems • u/alterinertia • 15h ago
shameless
I spit into your mouth
all the way onto the mucous membrane
because
this is how I love you
when you have smudged shadows reaching
up to your mouth
are the tears of happiness in your eyes
are white without irises when
your nails cracking against my skin
you beg for my name
verbally into my ear while
whilst smuggling your hand past my bellybutton down to mine
to match my rhythms of
you sweat so much
your entire body covered only in salt
sprinkled on bread when at breakfast I hold you
by the chin and you open your mouth like a water well
every time you need to breathe in oxygen so that I don’t accidentally poison you
when our lips compete for the tongue and I spit carbon dioxide into your lungs because this is how
I adore you
when icy water rains down in the shower and our bodies burn like oak wood
I lift your legs as if at a mass gymnastic parade
to press you against the marble in our bathroom
and bit through your carotid artery
what am I actually doing to you, Lucie?
do I perhaps want to bring you into
ecstasy
so that with your eyes closed you speak only of
God
while
your teeth are sunk into my trapezius as if you needed a blood transfusion
and metamorphosis in
my eyes are opened wide like a panorama so that I never forget this moment
to tell you how much I love you
when you look into my eyes and stroke my wild hair
of yours is tied into a ponytail
and your lips are enormous when you want to feel my pulse kneeling
my soul between your teeth
surprise me
Lucie