My love is violence.
Unrecognisable if unaccompanied by pain.
I take it with blood,
The way that others take it with sugar.
I don\'t know any other way.
Licked from a razor blade,
Or drip-fed by IV,
I can\'t imagine it
Absorbed through a hug
Or delivered wrapped neatly in a bow.
I was taught to moan for more,
When older men wrapped their hands around my throat
And squeezed \'til I turned blue.
I was taught to find pleasure in fading breath,
Tenderness in tears.
To crave a knife at my throat,
Or a gun to my temple.
Because what is love
If not brutality?