CHOCOLATE CAKE

 

CHOCOLATE CAKE

Found the one craving I can never keep,
the velvet noose that fits my throat just right.
I never meant to be this obvious,
this open wound with every secret already spilled,
but blame the way your shadow tastes like sin—
pulling every reckless bone straight into the spill. It wasn’t even hunger
till you hissed, “That’s the one you’ll never taste.”
Why do I keep ripping my heart out raw
when it looks so perfect bleeding in your fists? My heart splinters in the space between one beat—
you hurricane in, you hurricane out.
That sugar on your tongue should have screamed the black rip beneath,
the cold undertow waiting where the shallows smile.
Still I can’t imagine kinder hands
to let me drown the way you do. Little fool, I don’t know why I stay
when every feather Daddy dropped still whispers “fly.”
Old habits carve the softest grooves in bone;
shame to quit right when the wreckage starts to feel like home. I saw the snake coiled green in the grass,
yet sank my teeth deep anyway—too late. My heart splinters in the space between one beat—
you hurricane in, you hurricane out.
That sugar on your tongue should have screamed the black rip beneath,
the cold undertow waiting where the shallows smile.
No, I could never find a gentler storm
to wreck me clean and leave me whole again.