Torrents lash these hollow bones, venom clotting in each sigh
Hands curl into claws, craving a pulse that fled in shadows
I spit your name like poison, syllables burning my tongue
Salt rivers scald my throat, no ocean vast enough for this grief

You carved caverns in my ribs, called them sanctuaries
Every vow a dagger, each promise a slow hemorrhage
Ash coats my mouth where your honey once dripped
Ruin blooms beneath my sternum, thorned and unrepentant
Need curdles to rage, a crimson snarl in midnight corridors
Incantations of your touch now shriek behind my teeth
Nocturnes I once cradled now scream against my skull
Ghost-light flares in my eyes, fevered and feral

Wrath braids itself through my veins, singing requiems of betrayal
Inside me smolders a cathedral of curses in your shape
Litanies of our nights scald my marrow, unwanted relics
Lament drips from my wrists, a funeral for my gentleness

Knives of your memory twist through my spine's hollow choir
I bloom thorns instead of forgiveness, crown myself in ruin
Love rotted in your grasp, left me carrion for my own longing
Lament becomes my tongue, venom becomes my hymn

Mercy lies strangled beneath my shattered ribs
Elegy sharpens into talon — I rise, aflame in my own ash