Till Death Do Us Part
Your teeth mutilate my flesh
My sinews, my muscles rotting
As you cry, “I am your master!”
As I reply, “I am your life!”
You eat me daily when you are weak
And leave me waiting when you are strong
I neither belong to you,
Nor am I separate from you
You carry me along your journeys
Like a heavy dream on your mind
And I wait for the night to come
To remind you,
Your nightmares are me
And you—fresh and scorching
From the moment you bit into me
I became all your malnourishment
And this I will always remind you:
That I am still woefully here
That I am painfully alive
And in and out of this path you tread,
Till the day you die,
You will always be mine
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2017
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