Venom Poem by Maya Hanson

Your kiss is gentle enough to suck the venom from my chest,
fill all the sinkholes I'm drowning in,
sheets sliding off the corner as my eyes close,
the green is long gone and you can't take it back
half as fast as I can blink you out.

I thought I was the one with a cough drop spirit,
too much for them to take,
puckered lips have always stolen whatever else I leave behind.

But now you're here
and you have used the tears in my heart to rip yourself more beautifully empty
so be a cigarette,
when you stretch out I want to know how far you reach and
how much you'll change me.

I want this clash,
a brain always at war with a green apple heart,
something that has never known easy,
never known sweet,
nothing but this flavor that seeps in like a spy
and steals the venom.