blood dripped off every word
when you talked to me.
i spent countless nights
replaying the casual arm
you threw around my shoulders,
and that small smile
that poisoned my veins.
you pronounced my name carefully,
as if trying the word
on your tongue.
and it was that same tongue
that called me beautiful
under the stars.
i was ready to burn the world
for that love.
burn the world,
and burn with it.

but now, watching you kiss her,
i feel slippery oily betrayal
slide through my veins.
you shred my paper heart
with silver talons
and shatter me at midnight.
i squeeze my eyes shut
and behind my eyes,
i am plagued by the memories
of the hue of your eyes.
oh, the ocean's horizon,
it calls to me still.
even now
that you've broken my heart