Precious, Precious, Symbiosis

for years, your hungry maw had fed on salty tears and blood I'd bled you suckled without thought or rest on milk of kindness from my breast you chewed upon my weaknesses and slurped them up for sustenance clasped tightly like a foul remora you sucked me dry and howled for more and yet, in knowing all of this I held you tightly as aegis the better to distract me from the ugly beast I had become the cloak of your unceasing needs, diversion from my own foul deeds from true compassion to contempt til finally love's beyond exempt precious, precious, symbiosis sadness, sickness, sweet neuroses stilted, stunted, siamese dearest, deadliest disease