Names

One a.m. and awake with these thoughts

Your name flows through my veins

Slow and pulsing

Pressing through every inch of my body

Invading my mind and my most intimate places

If only your name was something

Other than what it is

Then perhaps my heart would not ache

Every time I hear it

My mind becomes clouded

My thoughts become scattered

My chest bursts into flames

Of blue and yellow and red

To see you with another

One whose name I cannot speak

Whose name will never find itself

On my bitter-tasting tongue

My heart shatters into billions of pieces

Knowing that my name

Will never fall

from your lips like honey

Honey

Your name flows through my veins

Slow and pulsing

Pressing through every inch of my body

Invading my mind and my most intimate places

Author's Note

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