It Was Love At First Sight

Inspired by The Word of The Day Challange: Lasciviousness

Love and death
Francisco Goya1799

I want you to myself

all to myself

I want your lips, your hands, your eyes

on me and just me all of the time.

 

I want your skin, your muscles, the blood in your veins

even those little bits of chocolate at the corner of your mouth

for me, just for me, I will savor every part of you I swear.

 

I will stay

until there is nothing left of you

except a pile of polished bones

said the maggot to the corpse

on the first day they met.

The Beginning

Female character China saqra of the Saqra
(devil, in Quechua) dance, province of Paucartambo,
Cusco, Peru 2010

“Terror made me cruel . . .”

– Emily Bronte, ‘Wuthering Heights’.

1900
Woodcut of Devil and witch riding on horseback.