I have cut a great hole inside myself
and laid huge pieces of me
upon the butcher's shelf
where they were devoured savagely
my insides eaten by my evil beast
a creature I did not know I had
we have been my dreadful feast
as I found that I am bad
and yet you bless my world still
when I should be nothing
but a rabid dog to kill
your love you still bring
to soothe my dying heart
your smiles eases me just a bit
and keeps me from falling apart
not that I deserve it
you've been too kind to me
you made my world whole
in ways I could not see
even though I stole
from your purity.
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