Dalliance ➵ poems

carcass

I find myself saying things you've said
Doing things you've done
Thinking things you've thought
Gnawing at flesh you've once lusted after
Because it felt nice to have blood on my teeth
And I figured you probably felt the same
You've been gone long
It's like I breathed in your heat
And I've turned into you
In ways I once found peculiar
But now feels as ordinary as walking
Like I've been you this entire time
I just didn't know
Like I was a dormant book of spells
And you were the key to know the chaos behind
Like I was a chemical in a beaker
And you triggered a reaction
You've injected yourself into my blood
Corrupted my dna
Left your carcass everywhere
That I now wake wearing pieces of you
In places they don't belong
People unaware its your flesh
You burrowed yourself so far deep into me
It's starting to come out
And when it does I stop and think
It's you who's speaking, not me.