Kurt Philip Behm

Where I Bleed

I caught the Muse having an affair….

 with my banished and cursed darker side

 

I could hear them laughing inside me,

 such lovemaking I cannot abide

 

A tryst most unwelcome though familiar,

  my dreams left abandoned of sleep

 

To kill off the one, I must kill off the other

 —alone in the night where I bleed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)