Siren

Why we kill.

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I bit my lip,

causing it to bleed.

I let it fall

in between my teeth.

I savoured it,

as an offering,

and I bit my lip,

hoping you would kiss it clean.

I stirred the seas,

hoping you’d come back to me.

I let them drown,

in the storm of my own envy.

I held the stones,

to which I drowned myself,

when you decided,

I was your Parthenope.

I soothed the fever,

that was ailing your head,

with the gentle milk,

that I squeezed from my breast.

and in the siren sea,

you will not forget,

the woman you once deceived,

when all your men are dead.