Pull me apart I am nothing but

a bundle of sinews raw pulsing

To be truly open is to be duly forced

I want you to peek between the gaps in my wasted muscle

spot the bloodied capsules on my lungs

the tumours metastasizing slick with off-red blood

pull one free of its hold leave nothing but the raw tissue beneath eaten away

eat it away let my cold blood hang off your lips

open my cells with the white freshness of your teeth stain your tongue with it

feel my disease my cancered love take it

take my broken bloodied sickly love

consume every brutal shred of it

Split the fibres with your canines

grin to show the mark of it the colour i make

hours later struggle to keep it down close the door in your throat

keep the little piece of my pain in your stomach

don’t let it crawl out let the tendrils

take your heart move on love someone new now

so they too can suck my tumour off your corpse when you die

what is love but a broken

glorified

disease.