Heart Screams

Before the moon sets.

Photo by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash

My heart only screams
There are many ways to write
A scream, but I write it in blood
Before the moon sets

I write it in cups of tea
Cradled in shaking hands
I write it with a bitten tongue

I write crimson tension 
Cancerous anxiety 
While my body aches

I write screams while wishing you dead
With a pen, but with a knife too

In gin binges and pills
I write what my heart screams

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Tangled in sheets 
At dreamland’s line
My song has split you
Demonic, devine, detritus 
At breathing soft
At heartbeat quickened
Upon the edge 
A trill
A treble 
Your moan at last
My longed for sigil
From underneath
I’m hither creeping
Singing
Always singing