VERSE: The Serum

It is the perfect mixture of pain pleasure pulse

Bitter mirage of luster

To muster the courage to take another

Numbs my tongue

Wait, I can’t speak

But the intense sweet blinds me

Like I can see

Rich brown tint

Hint of disdain

peppermint

Fools me into thinking

Is this what love taste like

I can remember

moment by moment flashes of you

Adrenaline twist of lemon with

Cold ice, like glass heart parts

Then why am I so tipsy

Desire to become transformed

Bare snake charms

Alerted by harms some

I roll my hips in figure eights

To roam and dance as Pixies do

Is this me, protecting me?

Careless if I caress,

Slurred tongue and languages

I sip more

Throwing caution into the sea

I want to drink it till I drown

Till I burst of its contents

Or swim in it until I’m free