Poem Collection - MythOfHappiness - 16. Blood

I’ve been biting the inside of my cheek again.

The scars there were barely healed,

Only to be split open

The first time I saw you

It’s so soft,

And I can taste you, and blood
Copper and sunlight

Salt and sweet

And now I’m smiling at you

And you start -

“What happened?!”

Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.

“But you’re bleeding?”

And I laugh,

And wipe a little of my blood

Off the corner of your mouth

You’re sweet. It’s nothing.

“I… ok. Are you sure?”

I kiss you again

See, no blood.

Later you walk away

The day ends, you go home

You kiss me at my door because I told you too

And I don’t bleed till you’re already driving away

There is no pain,

That’s not what it’s for

There is only that leftover feeling

Of giddy-lust and other things

And the taste

Of salt and copper

To remind me

You were ever there