I tied my tongue

I tied my tongue to a lamp post

and spoke this song with

my heartbeat instead

I burned a bridge in my mind

and the flames filled my lungs first

shaking every blood cell

And what was contained

pressed against my temples

cut to the bone

and further, turned my whole body to ash

to an endless swirling

He pulled my tongue into his mouth

and used my own voice to speak love to me

I swallowed a poison in my mind

and this death came quick straight through

sweating out of my skin

And the energy rises still

up from this holy temple

under my feet,

I kissed the mouth of my enemy

who would have me turn the flame into

tension, endless pain

I took my body as a weapon,

gently folding over

muffling the explosion

that ripped through my being

to spare us all the intensity of my love.