Blood Bath
Ominously
Unsuspectingly
Our naked flesh was pierced
By a decade-buried barbed boundary
Separating
Territory you
From territory me
Now in the shocked silence
We bleed
Blood in the bubble bath we’d prepared romantically
Warm oils and water for intimacy
No soap will wash this stain clean
No words can cover the distance
Rapidly spreading between us
As we pull the plug
Draining the love-pool we dreamt of swimming in
24 hours later
You are tiptoeing around me
Half - surprised at the bitterness
Still spilling from my tongue
From the all-night battering
Of your moral judgements
My half-desperate defenses
The slowly rising heat of the dialogue
Defining truth from lie
Forever a chasm of difference between you and I
That I replayed
Replanted like thorns in my head
While you slept soundly
Alone in our bed
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