Rodent

i loved you whole heartedly.
my skin would shiver every time
we touch. your touch felt like the first
hieroglyphic writing on Ancient
Egyptian walls and papyrus plants.
it was magic from higher spirits inhaled
from those that lived before us.
i lost myself in you.
collapsing in your arms was exorcism i'd
choose over and over again because this
was older than any religion i've ever known.
i built my alter at your knees. making love
to you was like burning impepho;
it was a cleansing ceremony.

but

another woman found resurrection
and scriptural pages underneath your
tounge. like a rodent she sneaked in
and you allowed her the cheesiest section
of our love affair. for a second, you opened
doors and Lucifer became an angel of
your heart, not even prayer can be a pesticide
here. let rodents turn our home into a black hole
where everything is sucked in and dies.
let rodents inhabit our home,
for my womb can never bare kings and
Goddesses for you anymore,
let these rodents into our home,
it was never our to protect.

#CulturedButterfly