• the tears glitter as they fall from her eyes
    leaving sparkling tracks on her soft cheeks
    mingling with the split blood
    trickling out from her rose-petal lips
    carelessly

    see hoe her small red tongue
    deftly flicks out to catch
    each wayward salty drop that beckoned to the reach
    of a delicate kiss of sharp white canines

    her vermilion mouth a wolf in wool
    like the beauty of fire
    look but never touch

    you know you would take poison
    if it held your eye in the shape
    of a sun-ripened fruit
    succulent to the last drop of asphyxiation

    careless careless careless
    holding your ideals to the end
    even as the knife is driven deeper into your heart
    twist deeper and deeper and deeper
    a rainbow of crimson-stained mist and you're free
    until you've caught a tear with your tongue