New reply from Susan Katz
<p>You are a consistently powerful voice spoken through the art of poetry. Your poems are "hard" harsh at times but there is a certain revelatory quality about them – they seem honest and determined to impact the reader. Have you ever considered putting a book together? I believe your poetry is relevant and would resonate with readers.</p>
<p>I will be offline for a few days, as I celebrate the holiday. Again, thank you for sharing your work with me. I have very much enjoyed reading it, – Susan</p>
https://poetladykatz.com/poetry-talk/threnody-of-flesh
Original Post by Comfort
Threnody of flesh
<p dir="ltr">I’m close enough for your breath to rethink itself,</p>
<p dir="ltr">my fingers already drawing territories you didn’t give permission for</p>
<p dir="ltr"> "don’t, stop" ,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and that’s why I keep going.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I’m not touching you to know you,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I’m touching you to see how fast you forget yourself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Your skin warms first,</p>
<p dir="ltr">then your judgement,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and I follow that heat like instinct,</p>
<p dir="ltr">like I was born knowing exactly where you soften.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don’t need your heart for this</p>
<p dir="ltr">only the places you defend the least,</p>
<p dir="ltr">the ones only I can feast. </p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">He gives you his heart like a sacrifice to a goddess,</p>
<p dir="ltr">yet you kneel before me like I’m your truer altar.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You hold his love with careful hands,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Though you lick love off my sweat like it's all you'll ever have. </p>
<p dir="ltr">He offers you devotion,</p>
<p dir="ltr">promises carved from sincerity so clean they shine,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and still you fold into my shadow</p>
<p dir="ltr">like you’ve been waiting for darkness to touch you.</p>
<p dir="ltr">you breathe like a sinner when I’m near.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And you call this confusion,</p>
<p dir="ltr">but you know better—</p>
<p dir="ltr">you’re just choosing the fire that burns sweeter.</p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">So why the tears now?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Why spill devotion at my feet, I'm not your husband. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I never told you to trade your heart for heat.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You </p>
<p dir="ltr">chose the way I choke you</p>
<p dir="ltr">over the way he hold you. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Don’t rewrite the story now.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Don’t dress your sins with hunger, I will feed on your weakness. </p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">So, if, my desire floods you again,</p>
<p dir="ltr">if your body starts begging louder than your conscience,</p>
<p dir="ltr">you know where to find me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I’ll take you to the deepest parts of yourself</p>
<p dir="ltr">and leave you empty again,</p>
<p dir="ltr">exactly why you keep coming back to me.</p>