Slice me open and watch the life

Bleed from my slit.

Lick it.

Taste me.

Know me from the inside,

The bitter elements, 

That support me and keep 

Me alive...

When I have no one. 

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Let me feel the

Love within your lick.

The way it sutures me shut.

Like a needle running  

A line between us...

Our secret intimacy will heal.

But the memory will remain.

I will stroke it when I miss you.

When I miss the way 

You held my bitterness, 

In your mouth, and smiled a smile...

Full of trouble, full of guile.

I press my skin to remember, 

The pain of the memory,

The shallow thrust of the ultimate trust.