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We made love with sugar and spice
on your eighth-floor balcony.

You said to me,
over coffee and tea,
that you were complete
in my company.
at least that's what I thought I heard.
the ringing in my ears made
mumbles of your words.

But you liked to cook,
and so did I.
We made love
like apple pie.

I cut myself once
with your knife.
My blood spelled a warning on the countertop,
but you ignored it
and I let it drop.

Your favorite dish was
one I couldn't make.

I could make love.

I couldn't make you love me.


We fought over whether rhubarb pie
needed nutmeg or cinnamon.
I told you last week it needed both,
but I had to tell you again.

That night
we made it with burdock.
I woke up
on the bottom floor in a stranger's bed.

The apartment came down
brick
by
brick.

You could have had the guts to shoot me with a silver bullet.
  
Your lemon torte was a trifle tart.
You piled bricks on my chest
and made it hard to breathe.

You said I knew your recipe,
one that should have been kept secret.
It's not my fault you have loose lips.

More bricks.

"It's over,"
said the red stone building blocks
whose dust got in my eyes
and dirtied my socks.

You tore down our kitchen
and tried to kill me with it.

"It's over,"
said the red stone building blocks
whose dust got in my eyes
and dirtied my socks.

I spat in your food,
my half-hearted attempt at revenge.
You tasted me through
the rosemary, sage, thyme,
and said that I
should have never called you mine.

The last thing you did to me
was put explosives in the microwave
and leave.

The explosion said
"it's over."

We made love,
but it sat out too long
and spoiled.
Commissioned by: :iconkane-blackthorn:. He asked for a poem about "the crushing realization that it's over." He also asked that it be at least two full pages on Word, which it is exactly.

I hope you like it. :)
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soulvoid93's avatar
Awww..... -tear- so sad...