Young Writers Society

chemistry reactions

i. synthesis.
my heart, your head --> meandyou
together, forever
tangled limbs
and bleeding lips.
(said kiss me harder,
you obliged all too happily.)

ii. decomposition.
meandyou --> me and you, you and me
but i lie in a grave of my own making,
while you watch, sending crumbles of dirt
to cover my body, to smother my mouth.
(no air needed, but my lips still bleed
crimson lipstick, sticky to cracked skin.)

iii. single-replacement.
youandme + Him --> youandHim + me
you've moved on,
and i can't say it doesn't hurt,
smeared with dirt, dripping carmine
on white carpet. watching you
choose Him, and leave me
in the dust.
(just another thing to cover me
from the Sun's prying light.)

iv. double-replacement.
youandHim + meandtheSun --> youandme + HimandtheSun
you came crawling back,
all ruby lips and flashing eyes,
mudstained face and scarred thighs.
you told me to hold you,
and oh how happily i obliged.
(healing the scars while i still can,
nevermind the fact you would leave me again)

v. combustion.
youandme + HimandtheSun --> nothing, anymore.
drift apart like wisps of smoke
under a gentle huff of breath,
wreathing around our heads
before whisking away, into the unknown.
(take a drag, let the world fade away
until all that is left, is a little smoke.)