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Undying Love

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i. I watched your skin peel like molten rock from your core; it slid down your curves in a most atrocious fashion. You unzipped your seams and the mumbled thoughts you once had, tumbled out--along with those unsightly worms. The rips of cloth that scantily cover your bones (The flesh had all ready fallen off. We covered this. No?) are nothing more than the inevitable shreds of dust we’ll become. I ate your tears like the chipped edges of pearls and when you wept I was finally satisfied with what I had become.


ii. Darling, do you remember the night I saw your face?


iii. Your eyes didn’t sparkle like crystal blue lakes but to me they could swallow the sun and still be lackluster. (There was nothing poetic about our meeting, if you recall.) I would have remembered that because I always sit across from you with nerves and sinew made of willow branches. They were brown, with the sheen of winter-dust, coating them and making them hollow--though I could have sworn one of them was all ready hollow from the maggots. Your skin was pliable and I pressed my lips against it, but my lips had been rotting next to me for so long that my jawbone collided against it instead.


iv.   Were we not lovers. Once? Surely it was once. Perhaps, a decade… or four ago. Time has become an inconsistency and the constellations continue to tell me their lies. I can no longer remember, I believe the essential part of me is withering. Promise me that you will not be afraid.


v. I took you in my arms and as we rocked, pieces of your butterfly bones fell to the earth.
The title! ITS PUNNY.

:B

I know. lame

I wanted to try some proesetry so I used *The-Literati's prompt: "Can a Zombie fall in love?"

OF COURSE! :heart:
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haphazardmelody's avatar
The imagery in this is just stunning. Truly.