"Inside Out" pastel on BFK Rives, Sherry Ashby Cunningham |
You Were My Fish
swimming up stream
always against the tide
you were my angel, my lover, my demon
you filled it all with toxic venom and sweet sweet love
wide awake in a house of mirrors
you beckoned- I came and came and came again
juice poured through every crack, every crevice
until I was barren.
concubine
my addiction- I bled for you and you alone
you were mine but never mine
I was yours, always yours
You filled me to the brim and it over ran
slurped it up and came back for more
never satiated
the cycle- spinning
lost and empty and full
dancing in the moon
though never roaming always still
you gave it away
you gave it all away
~s.a.cunningham
" Inside Out" (detail) pastel on BFK Rives, s.a.cunningham |