Shattered Me by Brooke Fox

          “Stop, please – I’m faint” Scarlett whispered

          “I want to make you faint” Rhett murmured, “You’ve had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you’ve known have ever kissed you like this, have they?”

          She would faint if he did not stop. If only he would never stop…

          “Marry me. Say yes, damn you or - ”

          She whispered ‘yes’ before she even thought.

The meat and the juice

dripped over my heart

taken from the end of

the most fragile glass –

Someone poured me some

champagne that turned

into the blood

of cooked meat.

And the raw, chewy flesh

quenched my thirst

as I savored for

the love this man

wanted to devour me

with –

as I became thready kneed

and then

started to fall

before he

caught me

My glass became

slowly darker

as I met his gaze 

those black fires

cursed my drink

turning it darker

like his eyes 

darker and darker

until

finally

I downed the glass

He kissed me

and my heart began pounding as the drink

disappeared

and swarmed throughout my system

and made me come alive

Blood went through me –

blood –

it was all I felt, heard

my heart

we were so close

and eventually

the world disappeared

Earth shattered.