shatter.

i can feel your hands wrapped
around my throat, fingers closing
tighter, tighter, desperate,
as though my blood might pour
through your fingers like sand.

you are a reptile, a python
slowly constricting my ribcage
shattering my bones.

the colors of my bedroom are
meshing into a sad blend of
blue-grey-black,
like a camera lens clouding with
the fog-before-the-storm.

keep going, darling -
this is the most passionate i've seen you in weeks.

maybe if you try hard enough,
the
bits
and
pieces
of me
will melt and solidify into glass
so you can shatter me
then watch yourself bleed.