Scarlover

Maria McKee

Been over this a hundred times we’ve talked it to its 
black end 
It begins again and again there’s nothing we can say 
My brain has derailed my hands are benailed 
You fall across my body like a death shroud 
Your wound was plain like mine no ragged edges well 
defined 
We grew to war like a bloom reaching toward the light 
It felt so brutal so transdermal so alive it felt so 
alive felt so alive 

Hear the sound the sick sound of us clicking 
Feel the skin between us thicker, thickening 
As the first cut relieves believe me 
I’m a scarlover too and I’m full of scars like you 

Scarlover my scarlover my scarlover my scarlover 
Ugly inside of me taught me of beauty I wouldn’t trade 
that work of art 
For all the silk of perfect skin perfect skin perfect 
skin 

I wear it well like the colors of a tribe of survivors 
You dressed my up so fine my painful, truthful boy 
With bold strokes and rape of soul you were dazzling 
matchless a legend in your field 
And you thought you could love me just a little 
And I used you to test my aim and precision 
I was good, so good I was close to perfection but you 
turned the blade on me 
And I loved it I loved it 

Scarlover my scarlover my scarlover my scarlover 
Ugly inside of me taught me of beauty 
I wouldn’t trade that work of art 
For all the silk of perfect skin perfect skin perfect 
skin 

Let me in 
I wonder where you are 
Scarlover