Not a pound
#WritcoPoemPrompt106
My heart fell
between your fingers
soaked in red
a luke-warm, throbbing
piece of flesh
lying bare on an auncel
For the penny I owed
the interest is a pound
on your scale
of whatever meat you asked
yet the very debt you called
was what is left between us
Far too entrenched
in your lingering gaze
even if it's cold like ice
thrusting shards in my chest
when you spoke of my meat
I...
My heart fell
between your fingers
soaked in red
a luke-warm, throbbing
piece of flesh
lying bare on an auncel
For the penny I owed
the interest is a pound
on your scale
of whatever meat you asked
yet the very debt you called
was what is left between us
Far too entrenched
in your lingering gaze
even if it's cold like ice
thrusting shards in my chest
when you spoke of my meat
I...