Your red light splashes over our faces and bodies 

And all across the sheets and walls 

I feel as though the moment is so tender

It’s bleeding all over us

 

I’m so deeply scared 

But not like I was before 

Not like I’ve been my whole life

No

I’m so scared of how safe I feel 

With you

Our atoms and molecules colliding 

I try to get so close to you that we become one

 

I apply pressure to the cut we’ve torn into the night’s soft neck 

But she bleeds to death.