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Addicted to Your Alchemy
Written May 6th, 2026, for contest sponsored by Ink Empress
Prompt ~ Addicted to your Alchemy
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Addicted to your alchemy—
I admit it without genteel restraint,
without the wherewithal to pretend
that this isn’t a selcouth, slow-burning undoing.
Your cuddles fired a flutter of ecstasy,
a golden glow gliding gently in my ribs,
switching my stolid stillness
into a fleeting void,
a longing that lingered,
leaping beyond limits.
I wretchedly return to the declivity
where your voice first broke my heart—
that susurrous, almost perfidious whisper
evocative vows, never venerated
I still recite it as if it were scripture.
There is a tristful sweetness in these moans,
a quixotry I cannot winnow from my bones.
Even today, your absence hones
similar to a stalwart shun
Draw me into that katabatic abyss
With virile, velvety-dark desire eclipses.
I strive to argue with myself—
a futile conundrum,
a colloquy with a heart too recalcitrant
to resile from the memory of your mouth.
Desire has its own sequacious logic,
It's tailored susceptibility
And I am guilty of every syllable.
You were always a little inimical,
a little officious with my longing,
Yet I let you inspissate my nights
with your half-truth heat,
your muliebrity or virility
(whatever shape you wore that hour),
Your sylphlike drift through my restraint.
And still—
I would sojourn in this sorrow again,
a sublime symphony of sprees
the sumptuous, smoke-soft torment
That leaves me wan,
yet wanting.
Addicted to your alchemy—
yes.
Because even now,
in the nadir of this night,
Your memory moves through me
akin to a clandestine partita
a dark-winged music
I cannot—
will not—
stop listening to.
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