_____ by Juliet

please baby let me
let me lick my tongue all over your wounds
curling myself around you like a lioness
scraping away the scar tissue
ripping it down to blood and tender skin again
so that you can feel me
with my sandpapery motherly tongue

let me flip you over
with the force
of how bad I want to take care of you
let me hold you down and place a hot brand
on you so that you don't get lost when you wander away
as you are wont to do

let me sink my fangs into you
and seep a sweet poison into your blood
so that you never feel any pain
that you never move and be lured into
things that would hurt you
tie you down
enmesh you in my web
but to save you baby, always
to save you

'cause it makes me weep to see you like this
the helpless sobs that make my body
fall slack
lungs grasping for air
clawing away at my own helplessness
to fix you us my own self
but of the three
if I had to choose
it would be the one I love the most

and so I would bait you like a trap
and hold you
and lose the only thing
I ever prayed for
to keep you still

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