When I stalked to her door
Ready to devour her
She didn’t seem to realize why I’d come.
She embraced me and whispered
And said her goodbyes
As we weaved and twisted off into the night.
I became a silver spiral
While she clung to my horns
And I thought about the texture
Of her bones in my teeth.
But she leaned over and smiled
And said that she knew me
And my scales shuddered, shattered, and sloughed off into dust.
And we fell
We
Fell
Fast and far
Pressed against one another like drops in a storm
And I knew that she’d killed me, she’d gotten me good
But I didn’t really mind one bit.