terms of devotion

I would kill for you
I would die for you
I would drag the world behind me
by its throat
feel it kick and tear
and finally go quiet
just to lay it at your feet
and ask if it’s enough

I’d rip apart the ones
who ever said your name wrong
messy
takin my time
wantin them to feel the moment
they realize they misjudged
my devotion to you
the room filled with sound
with color
with a shade of red
that doesn’t belong
to anythin anymore

walls would wear it
my hands would wear it
the air would taste like consequence
iron
smoke
and a kinda sweetness
that only exists after endin

I’d come back to you
soaked in aftermath
heat still rollin off me
pulse loud
breath wrecked
lookin like I just crawled from a storm
that rewrote the sky

I’d touch your face
thumb draggin slow
across your jaw
leavin streaks
on your cheek
markin you
with what I was willin to become

you’d lean into it
your fingers findin my wrists
my hands
my chest
my throat
feelin the violence
still vibratin in me
like you’re readin what I did
directly off my skin

I’d burn candles from the fat
of your enemies
let their ghosts
light the room
let their endins
become our atmosphere
the glow soft
unreal
like sunset
filtered thru extinction

I’d pour you a drink
wine as red as what’s dryin
on my hands
red as the echo
still ringin in my bones
and I’d watch you drink it
like everythin I did
finally makes sense
now that it ends at your mouth

my hands would find you
at your jaw
your neck
your waist
and I’d catch your mouth
like an aftershock
the kind that comes
after everythin is already ruined
and still shakin

I’d kiss you
like I haven’t come back yet
like part of me is still out there
breakin things
and needin you
to drag me home

I’d finally go still
when you rest your hand
on my chest
right over my heart
right over the noise
keepin the part of me
that just ended the world
as your own

and in the glow of all that absence
with ghosts doin the lightin
and blood still warm between us
I’d lean in
and tell you softly
as a promise
as a warnin

this is what love looks like
when I mean it