I am inside someone
Who hates this endless dance,
I look out from her eyes.
Smell the liqour on her breath,
Feel her love for her wretched men.
I see my body, a tiny rectangle of glass
ensnared in muscle and bone,
My heart a slow metronome
My face a clear box
Radiating energy for all eternity.
I see love and fear in a house
It hurts to keep burning
But your dry heat feels like power
Your eyes are stars of a different magnitude
They light up and scream EXIT HERE:
You look at me like an emergency
And now we pace the floor talking of danger
While screens flicker cheap pornography and science fiction vampires
No one h