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i touch the stars
with my tongue
tasting their cold
the shards cutting
my mouth fills with
starlit blood
glowing softly
in their light
as they grin down
me like pale
daggers

i offer myself
up to them
baring my throat
to their icy eyes
each star contains
a memory

that one contains
sitting on a
corner waiting
for my father
to come home
another one
cutting up my
arms as a blood
sacrifice
smiling with blood
red lips the sharp
metallic taste
cutting the edges
of my mouth
another one contains
sitting on his
lap playing
games
oh no oh no
i can feel it
hard underneath me

the stars flicker
each lit inside
by a candle with
a blue flame that
burns cold
when you pass your
hand through it

i sit underneath
the stars and
play with them
i am god
for one moment
my eyes are full
of blood
or are they tears?

the grass is cool
underneath me
i press my hot
cheek against
the coolness and
close my eyes
against the cold
light above me

blood sacrifice
take my left
arm and nick it
with the ice cold
shards of the stars
blood appears
do it right
cut it right
up to the artery
a t
a t
the blood doesn't well up
it spurts
it sprays
i can taste
it on my
skin
it falls
to the cool
earth

the moon comes down
and laps at it with
her hungry mouth
the stars smile
and gibber

blood sacrifice
i lie down in
a bed of broken
stars and feel
content