Careless Heart

Vile mind, insolent flesh

Bury deep within me and

Retreat unto yourself, for

Never shall I admit to you, nor

Carry you as my own.

Careless heart, wander not;

I entreat to you, leave me not:

And never shall I relinquish my grasp

Upon your selfish, beating, sickening, twisting,

red-supple tissue.

Oh! how you try to slip from my clutch

Slimy and wily, waiting for me

To forget for the barest of moments,

That I must hold onto you -

Lest you are freed to ravage fully:

To undo the thread of my moral mind,

To lay bruises in your wake,

   (like blooms of blood under fragile skin)

To implode and leak on the remnants of

This soul; that so splintered and broken,

Shattered and torn, does you justice.