newborn

i'll be the corpse in your bathtub, useless, i'll be as deaf as a post, if you hold me like a newborn, whisper what you feel, my badly strung declaration, to you, you'll spend the end of your days, gently smiling like a newborn, love not by degrees, press your lips, to my eyes, taste my tears, on your tongue, pull the blinds, play our song, nothings changed, nothing could be wrong. scream in the night, kick and skrike, like a newborn, holding me shaking, awake in the dark, all of these promises, kept and unbroken, tracing the scars, tracing the scars, even and cold, as we both become older. your arms bound about me, the hush in your voice. the warmth of your fingers, entwined around mine, in the eve of our lives, never a choice.