gold & lilacs

LIII

| but, love, you still forgot to chew

i never acknowledged that
the cocktail of miscellaneous flavours
of syrups that filled my body
each time one of my boys kissed me
tasted so deliciously smooth

you drank every drop of it
darling, you licked the last of it

tell me, baby, did it taste so fine
like molten stars on your lips

or are you just insecure that
a few other humans were capable
of lining my insides with
so much sweetness as that
of sugar lumps that you have
stored in the curves of your cheeks

does it matter now that
you have taken every grain of it

now there is no viscosity between
my cells where your roses can dip
their wilting stems

the honey coated petals |