inside.

and not in a way where id want him removed,

no.

Under My Skin as in I bleed in his name.

I breathe in his breath.

a ligature.

he brought binding to the parts that made me

under my eyelids.

floating in every liquid that spelled my name

he was as much a part of me as I was him.

always incoherent

where my thought began his tongue started

intertwined at the ends of the beginning

I whistled to the winds and drank sacred waters to the ocean.

I asked for this,

I sacrificed for this.

under my skin like a prayer whispered through my teeth

314 times

echo through my bones.

find resonance in my soul